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morning sir! yeah it turns out i need glasses cause n3rdism and all…. i still havent ordered them 4 months later \o/
Morning, TAY! I had a pretty good weekend. Went to visit my Old Man in Sydney and met with a few TAYbies for a while. @blaghman and I didn’t have anything to do so we just walked around to every games shop in the city and drank milkshakes 😛
Have a good week!
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You forgot the bit where I picked up twice as many Streetpass hits as you, in the same space of time.
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Morning all!
So much damned Dota played on Sunday. Raptr suggested the game was running for over 8 hours…though I did leave it running for ages without playing 😛
Training most of this week, so I’m gunna be counting on coffee a lot…
Shows I have yet to watch:
– How I Met Your Mother (Only the most recent season)
– Game of Thrones
– Breaking Bad
– Archer (Only the most recent season)
Am I forgetting anything?
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Depends.
Have you seen:
– Mad Men
– Six Feet Under
– The Sopranos
– Sons of Anarchy
– The Shield
– Gilmore Girls-
Mad Men – nope, but the premise doesn’t interest me that much
Six Feet Under – I may have watched an episode or two on TV… I don’t really remember. Is this comedy?
The Sopranos – by all accounts this is a good show, but I honestly can’t get into it…
Sons of Anarchy – Never heard of it. Will take a look!
The Shield – tried it, didn’t like it :\
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Six Feet Under has funny moments, but it’s definitely not a comedy. Set in a Californian funeral home.
But it doesn’t sound like your tastes and mine line up very well 😛
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I only just finished Breaking Bad last night. Well, got up to where they stopped anyway. Holy shit what an awesome show. Do it.
Also Game of Thrones – WHAT ROCK HAVE YOU BEEN LIVING UNDER?!?!?!??! WINTER IS COMING!
I don’t know about many other TV shows, TWD, GoT and Breaking Bad are the only shows I’ve watched, really.
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Who asked you, dickman?
I watched the trailers for Archer and just shrugged. Might have to check it out though. You’re not the first person that’s told me it’s good.
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Hey, fuck you, dickman. I tried to help you, but you know what? Eat a dick.
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excellent show, well worth anyone’s time, watched the newest one last night. Did anyone else see it yet? there was a character that was suspiciously similar to a Sealab character
Dude running “Sealab” called “Murphy” drove around in a little golf buggy just like the “Murphmobile” and was crushed by a vending machine, (Beebop Cola anyone?).
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I’ve actually never seen Sealab, though I’ve heard good things. Same guy isn’t it?
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Yep, same guy. Latest ep was a deliberate homage.
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Cool. Coolcoolcool.
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I figured it had to be a homage, such an awesome show, some of my favourite quotes come from that, eg. “A throat needs sliting and we don’t know where to lay the blade”.
Also it had Eric Estrada, so…………….. WIN!
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That’s because everyone knows it’s good. There is consensus.
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You need to sit down and watch it. Most of the jokes are in-jokes that won’t make sense until you’ve seen a couple episodes. Definitely my favourite animated comedy – by far.
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Archer is awesome. Do it.
The animated show btw. There might be some other show called archer. Wait that’s Arrow. Never mind 🙂
Watch Archer!
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Secret back post because I’m mental.So I got a bit mixed up last night. Let me set the record straight.
I have not ordered the P4A Limited Edition. What I have done is pre-ordered P4A from ozgameshop for $46, which includes ‘pre-order bonus’ of soundtrack and ‘digital fan pack’ (whatever that is).
My pile of shame is such that I really can’t justify buying anymore games, let alone buying them new. One option I considered was waiting to pick it up cheap from ozgameshop in 6 months time. This was an option because I can live without (or download) those bonus items. However, I really like the characters from persona (P4 inparticular), I love anime style fighting games with a strong story component (like BlazBlue) and I also had $50 in my Pure Profile account. So, um free game?
PS pureprofile is an online surveys thingy, where you get paid small amounts to undertake short(ish) surveys online. It is my preferred site b/c even if you get screened out you still get osme money, unlike say ‘your voice’ where you might spend a few minutes answering questions, only to get screened out and get jack.
Whilst the P4A LE that that other chaps are buying looks neat and cool etc realistically what would I do with those bonus items? Wear the badges to work? Use the bag as a grocery bag? Give the puzzle to my son? Missed oppotunity imo. If it was a harcover art book then i’d buy, but I don’t need trinkets.
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Exactly. I don’t think the LE stuff is that grand, especially for what is essentially $50 more (I assumed P4A would be $60 but $45 is much cheaper).
I decided I’m going to go the “wait until it’s cheap” route as I’ve got enough games to play at the moment and it’s coming out really soon (I’m still 190+ hours into MH with more to come and getting Fire Emblem tomorrow).
If you’ve got $50 to spare and the other stuff is limited, you might as well go for it now although I would prefer it if you bought Xenoblade ;). Sounds like it’s your type of game! I generally don’t play fighters that much but BlazBlue looked interesting (never got it though) and I’m really eager to find out what happens to the characters.
If you did decide to wait on it, maybe you can pick up a Vita and P4G in the meantime and play that first. I know you’ve seen the anime for the story but it’s not the same damnit!
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Some sounds advice!
Too many games and systems, too limited budget 😛
TBH I’m looking to buy a new system come tax time, and will need to post in TAY in the coming weeks to get opinions.
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I am Helpius!
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I am objectively correct 🙂
I like Bob’s Burgers but there are better things out there.
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People brought up Archer up above so it was a natural suggestion to make.
Of course there is good drama, comedy and horror etc but I feel it’s one of the best in the animated show genre.
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Hope it gets sorted soon, man.
Who had “long-term disappearance of all stuff” in the pool? You might consider giving some of your winnings to Trjn.
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When I helped my sister move from Brisbane to Sydney, the truck with her stuff was about 3 days late. Stuff including bed and couch. Slept on the ground for 2 days, gave up and checked into a hotel.
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I’m somewhat happy to report that @freya has a terrible IKEA mattress that is serving almost adequately.
Waiting to hear back on the where my stuff is though.
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Under the Bridge is about the only song I like by them. XD
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Morning everyone!
I don’t know how many of you have been checking the progress of Nova’s costume, but it’s on his twitter account if you are interested.
Also, please don’t hug me Nova, I’m not used to it. @_@
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I guess Strange hugs are allowed. Mrs. Freeze totally hugged me on Saturday night too. Haha!
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Ladies man!
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I KNOW! I didn’t want to say anything before you saw it, I spent way too long replying to your lat comment so I could avoid it. So happy she’s going to be back. The comments on that episode are so dumb. Someone said they’d lost all respect for PA because they’re just making up the rules as they go along. Really?-
Blergh, reading comments = first mistake. As if she didnt deserve it (the second chance that is). Despite me thinking she did better, they both did so so well, especially compared to all the other elimination results. Well, with the exception of Katie, I’ve loved her ones. I think all in all theyve done a really good job with judging and eliminations and whatnot. Yaaaay Lexxy!! ^_^-
I think Katie is my favourite, her two comics were legitimately good. Lexxy is probably a close second. Not a huge fan of Amy, she kind of annoys me. I really want to see Maki do one. And I want Abby to go in just so Mike can rip on her for her standup.-
Ohhh but poor Abby when she watches the ep Lexxy left on. Mike was harsh man. That would not be fun to watch back. But totes agree with you, Katie is awesome. Also I like what I see of Mackenzie’s (spelling?) style, would like to see a comic of hers. Loooove Tavis’ style! -
Wasn’t Mackenzie the guy that just got kicked off? Yeah, Mike was really harsh in that ep, but he was obviously not coping well with having to get rid of either of them. That one was super tough. Also, Lexxy’s kickstarter is at $37k! So good! -
Holy freaking crap!! She’ll be basically able to make it her job soon, thats incredible.
Ummm yeah that was Mackenzie haha! Um, I meant the asian girl. Forget her name.
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The only game I played this weekend was Minecraft. On one hand, it was quite a bit of Minecraft. On the other hand, I really should have used that time to do other things. I have so many games on my pile of shame.
Anyways, I finally decided to investigate using skins in Minecraft so those of you playing with me on the Potaku server no longer need to stare in bewilderment at my standard Steve.
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Minecraft is weird. Sometimes I feel like I’m wasting valuable time that could be better spent on other endeavors, but at the same it’s strangely satisfying. It’s definitely a unique games in terms of how I feel when playing it, or even better when I’m excited about a project or something I want to do/make.
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Now that I have a pretty well established base of operations I feel like I should be accumulating resources for an epic build, but I feel like I need better tools first. I’ve only found 8 diamonds so far and I don’t want to use the diamond pickaxe I’ve made in case I fall in lava or something.
I get into this weird place where all I want to do is dig. I think the real problem is I just don’t have ideas so I never know what I’m working towards.
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Yeah I have a distinct problem when it comes to creative-type things on Minecraft. I love survival, and love building a super-functional base of operations. It’s just when it comes to being inventive and thinking of something grand to build in terms of creativity, or even some mechanical contraption I always come up with nothing.
Then I jump on Potaku MC and suddenly feel horrifically unimaginative after looking at all the cool shit other people build. Then I migrate back to my own server and dig holes.
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MAD MEN! GAME OF THRONES! TOP OF THE LAKE! Mondays are awesome.
(Btw, Virus. Was that Mad Men thing a one off dealy? Haha! 😛 Hope you’re feeling better today too.)
Hey look Monday morning and I’m already plugging stuff. What a jerk.
Potaku has a Facebook page as part of our very gradual takeover of the world (#vote1shiggy) so give that a like if you like it.
The most poorly organized Sydney-meat-maybe-not-actually-a-meat-eh-whatever meat with DAN! went pretty well. Lots of drinks, lots of stories, a bit of Blaghman, standard Sydney meat fare. Good times.
http://m.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/clubland-files-the-first-review-of-daft-punk-party/story-e6frf96o-1226618477709
A live blog of the Daft Punk Wee Waa album launch. From the future!
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Isnt it only the album being played with no band appearance? If so, overhyped event is overhyped.
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I think a lot of people didnt read the fine print, and a lot of people at Wee Waa will be disappointed people.
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Nehhhh because band members actually play at Gorillaz shows do they not? Just, behind a screen. Or something.
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Hola Tayberinos
I had a good weekend- went to a wedding up in the Clare valley. Paid for it Sunday Morning, but through the healing powers of Bacon I felt better.
I leave the country in 16 days! Excited!
A Monday Morning Question, apropos of nothing: in light of Warner Bros registering Mad Max game domains, which other 80s film needs to be a game? Imagine a proper Predator game, where you have to set traps and slather yourself in mud to avoid detection…
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New Blade Runner game. Also a decent character based Aliens game.
‘sup Red! South America trip sounds kind of scary. You going alone?
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Peru -> Bolivia -> Chile.
Machu Picchu is definitely on the list!
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Aw man, now I’m jealous. Haha.
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I’ve always wanted a Jurassic Park Uncharted game, but I guess that’s ’90s. So, uh, disregard. 😀
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Secret back post b/c I want to hide the kinky shit I am in to…So, further to some of the twitter discussion last night, I note you got Arcana Hearst 3. I love me some BB, I’m pumped for P4A… so obviously Arcana Hearts 3 has caught my attention too. It looks pretty cute man, but I thought it would be good to hear your opinion. I’m especially interested in the story mode (b/c that is the main mode I’d play).
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Oh, a collector huh? 😛
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No, it’s just that by the time I actually got it they’d fucked around for months and none of my US fronds were playing any more, and I don’t know anyone locally who even knows what the game is.
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Morning all, I’ll be trying to do a Zetrox LAN meat write up tonight. Can’t do it right now cuz at work. Hope you’re all in a better mood than me.
@bdkiaf
Ross Noble was fantastic. 2 people in the very front row dead middle were about 20 mins late. He spent a few minutes making jokes about where they were and moved off onto some random tangent until they turned up. Next 20 minutes was making fun of them.
20 minutes of the second half was dedicated to him singing the words “Sweet sweet piggy titties” to broadway showtunes.
The rest was Shakespeare done by Daleks.
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Nearly the entire first half of our show was Dalek Shakespeare, then just after the interval he started doing it again and the three girls in the front row stopped him and asked what a Dalek was. He lost it, on the floor laughing. The fact that they had been sitting there the whole show with no idea what was happening was the best thing ever.
Morning all. Went to see Warm Bodies on saturday with my sister, it’s a pretty enjoyable film. Basically a teen version of Romeo and Juliet set in a zombie apocalypse.
@greenius I have a Monster Hunter question. I was reading up on it online, and apparently you can get certain items by them breaking off monsters. So my question is, how does this all work? I need a King’s Frill, which I read breaks off a Great Jaggi’s head, so do I keep hitting one in the face to make it break? Is there an actual visual for the break, like the monsters head getting messed up or something? And what does the item drop look like? I was fighting one and it ran off limping but left a shiny thing in the ground behind which I wasn’t able to pick up because I was fighting another Great Jaggi, is that shiny thing what the drop would look like, or does it auto appear in your inventory?
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You get a visual effect when a part breaks, usually. The monster will flinch, you’ll get a sound and you’ll often notice said part looks broken or damaged afterwards. Breaking a part increases the likelihood of getting whatever said break drops in the quest reward at the end of the quest. You get rewards for finishing the quest, and a chance for extras from breakage in the same place.
Also, the things monsters drop, the shiny things are unrelated. You usually get things like wyvern tears or, bonus things from felynes as well. Breakage does not drop items immediately.
I have a feeling breakage may increase the chances of the part coming off a carve, but I’m not sure. I know it definitely makes it more likely to be in your reward at the end.
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Some shiny things are related. Off the top of my head, I know Brachydios (BRACHYC*NTPUNCHYJERKMICHAELBAYSPOLSION) you can get slime from the aftermath of his explosions that are shiny (and it’s a craftable item).
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I managed to get the frills a coupla times in a row, by smashing its stupid face repeatedly. And as ‘Nef says, it popped up in the Quest reward thing. It’s pretty obvious when its frills are toast though.
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I’m having the same problem with a ‘fearsome maw’. On the monster it’s supposed to drop off…. I dont even know which fearsome maw Im supposed to smash up…
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Also some drops are insanely rare too. Say you have to break a monster part to get a certain item, even if you break it, it still might be incredibly rare.
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Capture it brah!
Most things have better chances of spawning when you break parts and then capture. Look up Buttmouth’s carve/drop rate!
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yeah haha. its all good now. I had to fight giggidygiggidy more times than I enjoyed, but now i have pimped out poison blades! I got my trap on and cut all the maws.
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Wait until you need the stuff that only has a 1-3% rate 🙁
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Oops! Sorry man, I didn’t see this until now 🙂
Basically what the other’s said. Most drops will ONLY have a chance (or an increased chance) of appearing in the quest’s rewards screen if you break a certain part. Most of it is self explanatory though like ____ claws will drop if you break _____ claws. So for King’s Frill you’re going to need to break his frill so attack his head.
Some changes are hard to notice but the frill is one of the easier one and when it breaks you’ll see holes within his frill. For some of the other monsters you can literally cut off their tail to obtain the item ____ tail. Most of these items are only found from rewards or have a very low chance (like 1-3%) of being in one of those shiny drops or from a carve. Usually capturing a monster will yield more rewards and also increase the chances of them appearing.
I know when I was trying to get a King’s Frill I couldn’t get one from Free Hunt (just going into Moga Woods) so you’ll need to actually select the Great Jaggi quest to get it. Certain weapons will cut and break things easier than others and most of it sort of makes sense. You can’t cut off a tail with impact weapons like a Hammer or a Hunting Horn but Greatswords and Switchaxes are great for it.
I’m lazy so I straight away look at guides or wikis if I need something and I’m not sure where to get it. Check up a drop/carve rate guide as it’ll help, I don’t think King’s Frill is that rare but it’s not super common.
I tried explaining some things there but if you just want a simple answer:
– Do a quest with Great Jaggi
– Break his frill/face (you’ll notice it being broken and you’ll hear a breaking noise and it’ll flinch)
– Hope it appears in the quest rewards, capture it for possibly a better chanceFeel free to ask more questions 🙂
Morning all!
Weekend was pretty awesome…
thanks to @tech_knight and @tofu for making the long-ass trip to the LAN on sat!
Got off to a very slow start by the time everyone got set-up, and had to play IT-man again to get everyone else going! thank god @tech_knight & @tofu knew what they were doing and helped me get everyone else running….
so minecraft survival games… i died in 30 seconds… but not before i managed to kill tofu! everyone that died went into creative mode and their job was to help everyone and set traps simultaneously…. ended up accidently killing @tech_knight by placing a bucket of lava in front of him… i teleported him back and made up for it by giving him some armour weapons and food..
Turns out it was a bad idea running a hunger games server… in the end it took so long for people to find each other that i had to teleport them to the same location……
4 on 4 halo was up next, followed by some Warhammer 40000 Dawn of war… Clearly tech had never played the game before, tofu sat this one out… i started freezing constantly, (corrupted os installation, backing up for formatting as i write this) so i just started placing turrets… lots and lots of turrets…… survived two attacks from different teams, but the third managed to break through…..
the cake was cut right after; turns out the cake was not a lie…
http://i.imgur.com/Ni7HybP.jpg
flatout 2 was awesome fun as usual. the Bus Vs Canyon battles took place again…. results were mixed..
Quake 3 Arena is still insane fun…. cant believe how bad ive gotten at it after not playing it for so long! in the end a one on one rail war took place between tech and I…. we never finished, but he clearly had the upper hand… GET PRACTICING CAUSE YOU’RE GOING DOWN NEXT TIME!
the games concluded at 3:45am
other highlights include:
* One of my friends coming in and approaching @tofu from behind and reaching in for a hug…. officially creeped out @tofu. He apparently thought it was my brother. tofu_shields were activated immediately.
* tofu heading to a corner to crash…. flat on the ground on his back no pillow or anything…. mind you there was an ENTIRE PILE of beanbags right there!
not a highlight:
* being waken at 7:30am!!!!!
And today? i am officially wrecked….
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Oh man those reactions when my armies were attacking peoples bases in W40k, “WTF IS THAT CRAB THINGY KILLING MY GUYS?!” That last game was just a crawl since everybody was so turtling at that point. What I really should’ve done was get rocket jumping troops and jump up and over the wall and your defenses so I can attack without running into 10000 missile turrets and predator tanks. I think we should do Command & Conquer Generals for next time, since it’d be easier to pick up for newbies.
As for Quake 3, bring it! I’ll be trying to refine my railgun skills for round 2… now where did I put my quake 3 game CD? It was a good fight though, I was honoured to have such an opponent to meet in battle
For minecraft, we might need a smaller version of the map, or we try to set it up with a beacon or something to tell everyone where the centre of the map is, cuz I kept getting lost and ended up going in circles finding nothing.
That Tofu moment was so hilarious and awkward at the same time xD
I do have some feedback for next time:
– Have a cheap-junk PC with all the games on it and have that as a file server, getting everybody to go to that server to transfer their games from that instead of passing a drive around. It’ll save a LOT of time in game transitions.
– Fix those fricken smoke detectors! lol
– Don’t spam lava next to me in creative mode while I was still trying to survive in the match ever again 😛
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i was actually prepared for the game transfer thing but things didnt go to plan….. i bought a 2TB hard drive to go into a buffalo nas enclosure i had on the day….
this is what hapened:
at first i hadnt initialised the hdd.. i thought the nas would have done it: i was wrong.
i initialised it and created a partition: the nas wont accept a drive with an existing partition.
basically the manual and quickstart just says insert an initialised hard drive and thats it.
nothing else.
nothing about “must not have any partitions”
or the most important part. once u initialise the drive and put it in, apparently u press the function button at the back which sets up a partition on the drive and copys the file system software across.
there is not even a mention of a function button in the instructions, yet its essential to get it all going.
the weird thing is you cant even access the web interface to do it from that, because the software that drives the nas device needs to be installed on the drive…. hence the function button…
really needs a more detailed manual…. anyway it will be working next time. i got it going last night, and am currently backing up my pc as i seem to have a very buggy windows installation…. seriously thinking of reverting back to windows 7 but im a bit unsure at the moment.
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Just go back to Windows 7, we all know that works just fine 😛
Yeah that sucks about the NAS, hopefully we have better luck for next time.
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re c&c generals: i had that with me, noone put their hand up for it…
also, not sure if you’re much of a quake fan or not but im seriously thinking about starting to jump back on quake live….
and sorry about the lava…. i redeemed myself however!
re the smoke detectors: yeah we forgot to change the batteries!
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Well FPS was never something I got heavy into since my teenage years. The years of wireless-only gaming turned me off online FPS forever, though the last FPS game I used to play online was CoD:MW2 and that got boring after a while.
C&C Generals I said yes to, I guess maybe no one else was listening? I just think that’s more enjoyable and easier to pick up than Dawn of War :P.-
ive never had any issues with online fps’ on wireless?!?
in fact im still on wireless…. even worse, my ps3’s online connection runs through a wireless ethenet bridge setup on my ps3… online connectivity through pcwireless, and ICS setup on the ethernet out to the ps3.
thats mailnly because my ps3’s wireless sucks ass…. (ps3 Phat)
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I wasn’t that creeped out … startled at first and maybe a little flattered. But that was all. To be fair, that floor was pretty damned comfy
The minecraft thing was going swimmingly until I died rummaging through one of the chests. After that, I realised I had an unlimited fire starter in creative mode and may have started terrorising people. I tried to make up for it by giving someone a bow but they ran off. I felt jaded towards those still alive and vowed to make their lives a a vortex of mild annoyances! The reason I sat out of Warhammer was because I am horrible at RTS games and my mouse had been dropping signal every few minutes … it had nothing to do with me having an inkling that @tech_knight was amazing and would probably let my paltry army live out of pity until I was the last one remaining.
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Hey I wasn’t that amazing, the only thing I had going for me was that since I played the campaigns before, I had an inkling of what to do and how, everybody else pretty much didn’t.
Orks are kinda weird to play, I’m never building those tanks ever again, they more killed my own troops than hitting the enemy! Those Killa Cans (The walker tanks) were always lasting for so long. The main reason why people lasted so long, was cuz I was trying to get my own army in order and that took a lot longer than when I was chaos, and I wasted a lot of time getting that squiggoth, only to mistakingly leave my army on “do not attack” mode and it gets killed easily 😛 -
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Watching Play School with my son.
*they’re revealing who’s been ‘hiding’ under a scarf* “Oh, not a chicken. I hate chickens, they’re weird”
*they’re singing a song about the mystery of what’s in the toy box* “It’s a toy.” (with obvious scorn at their inability to guess). *turns out to be a ball* “Told you it was a toy!” 😛
It’s going to be so very boring when he goes off to school next year.
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Incidentally, that’s the first time I’ve ever heard him say he hates something. Further investigation reveals its because of the sound they make. 😛
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@strange just point out to him that Chickens are actually dinosaurs and they’ll be 1000% cooler.
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Secret back post b/c I’m keeping a low profile’)So Strange, it is time for my to finish Nier, but I need your advice.
I have one save, lets call it Save 1. It is at the entry to Lost Shrine (i.e. last save point) during my ‘ending C’ run (i.e. save only has the ‘A’ and ‘B’ stamps).
I have another save, lets call it Save 2, that is post ‘ending C’ (i.e has the ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ stamps).
My question is, given the effect ending D has on saves, is it correct to say there is no benefit in having one save with all the endings i.e. acheive A, B, C and D endings via one save. On that basis, it would be quicker and easier for me to load up my Save 1 and instead of making the ending C choice make the ending D choice. Does that sound right? Any pitfalls to this approach?
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Oh man, sorry I didn’t answer earlier. I’ve been in Sydney since Friday morning. I think, if it’s not too late I’d play it safe and load up the one with the most endings. If I remember correctly it wipes all of your saves and not just the one you loaded up so there’s no second chances .
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OH
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GOD!!
have you guys seen the most recent Blood Dragon trailer?? the cartoon one?!?!
ALL THE WANTS!!!
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I am so excited about this, so cheesy, 80’s synths bad voice over, Michael Biehn, It’s gonna be freakin awesome
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Hey, I didn’t know that Nintendo used *insert name of local train(or general public transport) system, since everyone seems to believe that theirs is the worst* for distribution!
*crowd laughs*
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Oh my god! *make joke about @blaghman being awake before noon*
*crowd starts laughing and clapping*
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Hey. *Acts offended, starts crying*
*Female members of the crowd simultaneously go “awwww”, male members wonder if they’re linked psychically or something, since that really is weird*
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http://www.vooks.net/awaken-your-wallet-fire-emblem-awakening-bargains/
Wow… expensive :/
Might just import it!
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Yeah, you see the thing is, I’m not patient. If it was something like $20 cheaper I would probably think about importing.
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Huh? It is like $15-20ish cheaper unless you buy imported copies from local stores. The last time I tried to be patient it didn’t work out well 😛 (bought MH locally)
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WHAT IS EVERYONE ELSE DOING – I’M CONFLICTED!
EB looks alright since I’ve got store credit but I won’t be able to get there in time to pre-order for art book. But I could save $20 importing but I’ll get impatient with all the hype talk 😛
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I’ll probably get it at Gametraders for $63.95. That a whole 5 cents savings! Also the new store manager isn’t a total jerk like the last one.
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Oh and also the DLC thing… if I import will I miss out on the free DLC timeframe? Anyone have information on the DLC? Is there any free ones available and for how long?
TOO MANY QUESTIONS?
@powalen
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The free launch DLC mission was free for the first month in the US, I think. I’m not sure if the DLC has even been announced for Australia yet though (I just kinda assumed we would be getting it :P)
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Aw man!
Maybe waiting another two weeks for an import won’t hurt me 😛 I doubt Kmart/Target are going to be very competitive with pricing this game.
EDIT: Eh, I’m just going to buy it from Big W or JB. I’ve got my games money set aside and I don’t plan on buying anything else until Pokemon in October so I may as well.
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Haha awww if you imported than I would’ve! You would’ve been leading most of the discussions anyway 😀
It’s the discussions that get me…
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I had a zombie apocalypse dream last night and the group leader kept on making stupid decisions. What’s with incompetent group leaders in zombie stuff? 😛
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Because the number of competent survivalists in the world is pretty low even now, I’d imagine. And most of the competent survivors wouldn’t saddle themselves with a group of people who need leading 🙂
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I thought I had some pretty good survival ideas, but didn’t want to speak up, cause people are intimidating and I didn’t want to rock the boat. 😛
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I’m pretty sure I would be the worst survivor ever. I’ve pretty much resigned myself to being one of the first victims – I wouldn’t last long enough to be classed an official ‘survivor’ in the apocalyptic sense of the word.
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I think it depends on the apocalypse. I possibly might be a lone wolf type who does their own thing and avoids the groups. Haha.
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Cue D.C. sitting in a clock tower, sniper rifle out, shooting anything that comes within 2 kilometres, regardless of its living state. A giant sign above the tower reads “D.C.’s hermit hut. Stay out, unless you bring real food.”
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If I could do the strikeout thing, I’d fix that for you and cross out “real food”, replacing it with spring rolls.
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Too complicated to make. I’d just eat canned corn until my stockpile runs out, then I’ll probably starve to death.
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I was the group leader in a friend’s zombie apocalypse dream once.
I sacrificed myself for the group, but as they were running away I became 8 stories tall and started smashng the Zoms.
Dreams are weird.
I had a dream I went to a few TAYbies’ houses for dinner. Apparently you live with your parents and your Mum is an artist….
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So @shiggyninty’s house doesn’t look like this?! http://babyology.com.au/miscellaneous/start-your-next-home-renovation-with-lego.html
So disappointed.
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You haven’t been to my house yet! What if it truly is LEGO?
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Then you would officially be the most awesome person I know.
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Better get started on the house then…
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So, my parents think that turning off the internet is a good way to motivate me into doing my chores, when in fact it isn’t.
Makes me really hate my dad, if he doesn’t watch himself, he may find a knife where he least expects it…
In the wrong drawer. DUN DUN DUN~
Sorry @scree for leaving so suddenly, I reconnected later to say goodbye, but you weren’t there…
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=O MONSTER!
He’s going to spend seconds maybe even minutes looking for that misplaced knife. You truly are pure evil! -
Haha, my parents always threatened that kind of stuff in high school, but had no idea how the internet worked. XD
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Dial up connection over a 20m phone cable running from one end of the house to the other. Yep, it was pretty easy to stop us.
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Reminds me of the scene in Outnumbered, where the parents buy the Net Nanny software, but get the kids to install it because they don’t understand it! 😛
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There’s more coming this year apparently. I’m on the verge of being stupidly excited by it, even though the kids are older 🙂
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I should rewatch it. I always seemed to catch it randomly between other shows when I had Foxtel. I don’t think I saw it in it’s proper order so I have no idea if there was any cohesive narrative.
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Sort of not really. There’s usually a bit of a thread in each season, but the episodes are – by and large – self-contained.
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One time when I was 15 my mother got in a snit about me not doing something fast enough and pulled the plug from the wall while I was in the middle of installing something. It completely borked the installation and created errors that I was unable to resolve. She then refused to believe me when I explained why the errors were her fault, and later denied ever doing it.
Question: How am I meant to concentrate on work when there is a naked woman walking past the windows in the building directly opposite?
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There’s a shower at work so I guess I could have a cold shower.
If that was what you were referring to.
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Closing the curtains?
What are you guys talking about?
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Let this be a lesson to all of you. Next time you’re staying at a hotel room, just because you can’t see through the windows of the building next to you doesn’t mean they can’t see through yours.
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What?
Yes it is.
There are no girls on the internet, and there definitely aren’t any that play games. They’re physically unable to. It’s basic science, everyone knows this. Don’t be silly, Old Man Strange.
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Hey. I just suggested he close the curtains like a gentleman. Not my fault they assumed I meant something else.
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Either way, we’re still talking about dongs.
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Yes, who is a better Korean actor? Jang Dong Gun or Chang-Dong Lee?
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Trick question, dickman. Chang-Dong Lee isn’t even an actor.
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Dayumnn bro, that chick in that movie was fiinnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeee
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So according to you, boys spell marginally better than girls? 😛
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I take it you haven’t seen how teenage girls communicate lately then.
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Best social link.
I was disappointed I couldn’t play Persona 4 as a full hikikomori.
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We don’t have Chainsaw Gutsfuck in the computer, please stop asking.
But those other two are on the list
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Good choice.
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Ehh well, their recorded stuff is a lot better than this. The setup here is bad.
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Your crazy dev pals in town yet? Having fun? 😀
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Nooo they come in on the 17th
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Due to the popular demand of no one and to make @strange’s dreams come true there’s a Movie Meat at my place not this Saturday night but the next involving food and watching movies.
Take it away @dc.
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Yeah, no. I get it. I was just confused for a moment.
YooToob dun tried’a trick me!
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@strange, @jimu, @gutsoup, @freezespreston, @dkzeitgeist, @sughly, @virus__, @sernobulus, @welbot, @beardymcmuttonchops, @lambomann007
And not Trjn. :'(
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Tag him anyway so he knows what he is missing out on!
@trjn
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Jerks.
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You’re ours now Bunny!
EDIT: When I say that I mean that you have to organise all the Sydney meats now.
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He likes boardgame meats… apparently. We haven’t had a board game meat in Brisbane since I started going to meats. 😛
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Hey man love is a strong word!
Nah sorry dude, my mate is coming up from Melbourne and I haven’t seen him since March last year. I should make the effort to see him, since I didn’t get to see him in December when he was up.
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Bring him with you!
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And the other 6 or 8 friends i’m going out with that night? hahaha
Not the Simpson’s version tempted to down vote 😛
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What date does that make it? We have very few free weekends for the next couple of months so there’s only a slim chance I’ll be able to make it.
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I think we’re free. I’ll start being nice to Mr. Strange as soon as he gets home so he’ll be more likely to say yes when I ask if we can go. 😛
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Awesomeness.
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MY FUCKING COPY OF SPACE FUCKING HULK ARRIVED HNNNGGHHHH IT ONLY TOOK 3 MONTHS.
IT’S STILL IN IT’S SHRINK WRAP AND IN PERFECT CONDITION. I AM A CHILD ON CHRISTMAS.
Bought Pandemic last night. Freya and I won two of the three games we played. I’m quite happy with that. It’s a damned good game. I shall probably be buying many damned good board games in the next few weeks.
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We were looking at that one. I really wanted to get Horus Heresy but wifey thought it looked to complicated.
Got 7 Wonders and Game Of Thrones: The Card Game instead.
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Pandemic is good, chaotic fun that probably comes down to teamwork and chance. I’m fairly sure there are some good drinking games to go along with it.
Thinking of grabbing Game of Thrones (the non-card one) too and I think Freya wanted to buy Dominion.
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I’ve debated picking up the Horus Heresy one, but I don’t think I know anyone that would want to play it with me. I’m pretty it is complicated.
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Our one game of that with Tigs, NegZero and a friend of Tigs we got smashed by several unlucky epidemic draws… by me
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We’re pretty sure he was the one spreading the disease. Literally every time he left a city, there would be an outbreak there.
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In our last game, we eradicated Red before a single city was infected by it. Was pretty much our saving grace as Yellow and Black wreaked havoc.
In another game, we had chain outbreaks that pretty much instantly ended the game.
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Yeah that’s how we lost, chain outbreaks when I was ready to eradicate those that ended up being triggered as the Medic.
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There was a post about card/board games coming out this year here on Kotaku and there were 2-3 games I really wanted to buy and didn’t Buggered if I can remember them now.
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There’s such an amazing backlog of board games, by the time I get around to the ones released this year, it’ll be 2020.
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Mrs Tigs bought Carcassonne for $4 on Sunday 🙂
Also pretty sure I’ll end up getting castle crashers shortly. Waiting to Neg0 to find out if ozgameshop ship decently or not
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machu_Picchu
This place reminds me of Perdida from Ni no Kuni! @redartifice, you so lucky!
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My guess is one is modelled on the other.
As much as I’m looking forward to Machu Pichu, I think I’m looking forward to Lake Titicaca and Atacama even more
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So I was watching an episode of Ninja Turtles yesterday and the villain turned the extending arm of a crane into an enormous saw blade (like a chainsaw) and no one thought to call it a “cranesaw”, what an awesome idea, I want a cranesaw, why hasn’t a game let me drive around in a cranesaw………… CRANESAW!
pointless observation over.
The One, The Only, @spaghett’s last song played game!
Feels, Sam, Heroin
Spacing
Shenanigans!
You Better, You Bet – The Who
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Love that set, so good. Their cover of Where did you sleep last night (or in the pines, whatever title you prefer) is amazing. As is their Bowie cover. As is the rest of the set.
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Bowie on the Man who sold the world: after the cover, he would encounter”kids that come up afterwards and say, ‘It’s cool you’re doing a Nirvana song.’ And I think, ‘Fuck you, you little tosser!’”
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Listening to Come As You Are from the Unplugged session on Spotify at the moment. I think I almost prefer the unplugged version.
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Meanwhile Numbers is thinking “I only listened to it because it was on the radio. What’s wrong with this guy?”
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nope, @dc linked it many times in TAY, and it’s grown on me, shame it’s not in the computer
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Morning TAY
It is only Monday and I am already looking forward to Friday. Only due to going on holidays to Sydney for a week. Dammit hurry up Friday I want my holiday.
What the fuck is ‘Coachella’ anyway? And am I enormously untrendy for not knowing? I’m going to guess it’s some hipster wank-shit music festival for trendies.
*snigger*
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Acquaintance of mine is there and a bit of a photography nut (pro fashion photographer). So far all the girls he’s photographed are ultra-trendy and malnourished.
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We should go. In denim. With cheeseburgers.
The falafel-eating juice drinkers won’t know what hit them.
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Some of those lineups are insane! Pretty much any of the years The Cure played I’d have loved to be at.
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Because of Kanye West, Ellie Goulding, and Boyz Noise I’m sure
edit: Oh wait, excuse me: Boys Noize
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Can’t think of any other reason why! XD
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Hey man, I like Kanye!
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Looking at the line-up, there’s heaps of bands beyond Arcade and National I’d love to have seen too. D:
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Actually I’m coming around to him. Slowly. I dont normally like letting the person get in the way of what I think of the music, but its been particularly hard in this instance.
That being said, I’m ashamed to admit a turning point was an interview with Bon Iver, who’s apparently good friends with him. He said he doesnt care for everyones abuse of Kanye, because Kanye’s just a passionate guy, and passion shouldnt be looked down on, or something along those lines. He put it more eloquently, but it did make me think twice about my prejudice.
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Kanye is an interesting person.. Bit of a drama queen (reminded me of Axl Rose and his temper tantrums haha), but he seemed pretty dedicated to performing at Big Day Out last year on the Gold Coast with the whole thing about him not being allowed on stage until it has been dried due to the bit of rain that happened.
I didn’t really get what his management and event co-ordinators were going on about since it didn’t stop Soundgarden (rained through their entire set) or Tony Hawk’s and his crew (delayed them by 3 hours) from performing and no one gave a shit about their safety o.O
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That 2001 main stage lineup is amazing. The Dandy Warhols, Jane’s Addiction AND Iggy Pop, damn.
And same with 2003 main stage, some pretty good acts there.
Other than those two years, Roger Waters is pretty cool to have on there in whatever 2006?
Think Big Day Out, but not as trashy and bogan-like and with the names like Tony Hawk & other pop stars just there in the crowd being normal lol.
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Well sorry for an accurate description, it’s not trashy and full of drug fucked bogans & that it caters to a wide range of music types like Big Day out does.
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I told my housemate that opening my shrink wrapped copy of Space Hulk 3rd Edition will feel like a supreme act of heresy. Then I laughed and said I made an unintentional 40k joke.
She didn’t get it.
/tumbleweed
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I got an email from Red today, but I’m afraid I haven’t seen anything from you. As stupid as it sounds, try forwarding the email to me? That works whenever Cake has a problem sending me emails, for example. Stupid emails.
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Just saw your new thing, kid Shiggy. If you think it will work as a RAM, feel free to modify to your heart’s content. Do whatever you want to it, really.
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I will get the surgical tools ready.
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HA! The nosey woman on Twitter that likes to butt into convo’s between Kat & I, well she unfollowed Kat & I, claims she lost 50 people she was following. I’ve seen people say that before when in fact they unfollowed the people and were too proud to say so. If it was a genuine twitter error then okay, i’ll grant that. But i’ve never had that happen before to me and i’ve never heard about it happening to someone else, likewise Kat said the same.
Kat & I think it’s hilarious, and don’t care for excuses!
I have my suspicions as to why she unfollowed us if it was so. Kat was saying she will introduce me to Corey Taylor when I visit when Stone Sour or Slipknot are playing, since she seems to know him rather well haha, and well the nosey woman hates it when people talk about him because apparently she’s the only one who is allowed to know him personally HAHAHA. Get a grip I say.
Either way I can’t stop finding this hilarious.
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So if two people are talking to each other on Twitter (publicly, not via Direct Message) then you’re not allowed to attempt to join in?
I butt in all the time. I thought that was what Twitter was for. 😛-
No no, it was the fact EVERYTIME there was slight mention of anyone relating to Slipknot or Stone Sour she would jump in and be rude and defend whoever when we never said anything that would provoke such a response. It was just weird.. Like fair enough if you have something to add to the conversation that’s worthwhile but to just be rude for the sake of being rude? Yeah no.
But I just find it hilarious is all.
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Well, maybe she did unfollow you, but at least claiming a Twitter error is an attempt to spare your feelings, rather than outright admitting that she doesn’t think you’re worth paying any more attention to.
Me, I unfollowed 1800 people on Twitter unapologetically about a fortnight ago. I doubt I hurt any feelings (and hope I didn’t), but I’m not about to try to mitigate any of that, even with a blanket “Oops computer say no” – maybe at least give her points for trying as you cut contact! 🙂
Sounds like the conflict was getting silly, though, so you might all be better off now! \o/
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Heh, I like it when people unfollow me 😛 It means i’ve pissed them off some how so much so they’ve taken the time to go to my profile and unfollow me! Some even block me which is even a more amazing feat!
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D:
We’re very different people. If someone unfollowed me I’d probably get depressed for a couple of days. Haha.
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There’s been a few instances where someone who was a close friend has blocked me, that was hurtful but EH WHATEVER. Better off without them anyway 😀
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I’m gonna unfollow you tonight @dc.
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As long as my Hellscream pal doesn’t, it’s all good. 😀
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God, people who think they have a personal relationship with celebrities and that all others should be excluded are the worst.
My wife has a Facebook friend who is obsessed with Zumba and thanks she’s BFFs with one of the founders, Tanya Beardsley, even though they’ve never met in person. She takes statements Tanya makes in press-releases or at presentations and presents them out of context as if they were personalised advice in a personal conversation they had, i.e: “Tanya B. told me this the other day”.
If anyone else tries to claim a personal relationship or even known of Tanya, this women goes right off! No one knows Tanya B. like she does! NO ONE.
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Yeah, like she is personal friends with the band, she’s known them for 15 years or whatever. But the way she acts and defends is just wrong. She use to run the official forums for both Slipknot & Stone Sour, I had seen her on Facebook full on attack people not much older or younger than I for having some sort of ‘fan’ page of a band member, hell i’ve seen her tell people to go and ABUSE the person who ran the page. Not on in my opinion, we clashed a few times when I spoke up about her ways, but she’s stubborn and always thinks she is right lol.
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@sughly
Once the next stretch goal is hit she’s offering more of the $100 level, which I’ll probably upgrade to cause it sounds awesome! I’m really glad it’s been so successful.
Monica! Yes, she has a fantastic style. I really don’t expect Abby to make it past her first elimination.
Edit: Huuuhhh.. Well, in that case, back this.
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I’m still umming and ahhing :3
I totally want to, just… moneys. Ergh, fuck it. I’m backing already. I’ll regret it otherwise.
edit: Which tier did you go for?
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I was thinking that, but signed bookplate, isnt that just a print? Not an actual signature? Seems like a little bit of a jib if so. Also moneys :/ I might just be cheap and get the book. Only tempted to get the one up with prints, wouldve been a certainty if the prints were selectable.
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Signed bookplates are usually handsigned. I haven’t looked at this particular offering, but they’re usually a bit of cardboard slightly smaller than the book that can be stuck to the inside cover.
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Ohhhh ok, I thought it mightve been a print done on the inside of the cover, as in plate being used to print XD Yeah I think I know the dealio you mean. Oh… thats cool. Shit.
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Was watching a bit of that this morning haha!
That mouth is disturbing me, I hope she fixes it. Looks a little… like a duck :/
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I am going to go play Dark Souls or some other video game and hopefully when I get back I’ll have forgotten about this fail…
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http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/sunday-comics-fighting-fire-with-fire/ (the fire emblem comic)
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Well you should because…um…err…well there’s…no…it could….no…
OH!
The case is a really nice glossy black.
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It’s coming (I think it’s been bumped to May /o\). But in a lot of ways, this is better than reading it. Much better.
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If he’s not going to read it, I’d have rathered he just send me $8 instead of the paltry royalties I’ll get 😛
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I’ll read it. In time. 🙁 Hope I didn’t make you feel bad. I’m just incredibly lazy when it comes to reading.
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So bad. Day ruined. Will be hiding under my de… BIP BIP. Oooh, a message. MY GLASSES ARE READY \o/
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I can never tell with you, but I feel this urge to post “(PS: DC, I’m joking)” after all these type of things. Buying the books is support enough, and I do appreciate it.
I do feel a bit bad that you feel pressured to read them under ideal conditions- honestly, they’re not worth that 😛
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I did worry that I offended you, but I interpreted your response the right way… I think…
Haha, I didn’t buy it out of obligation or any thing either. You’re a cool guy and a good friend, who I wanted to support and I likes me sci-fi too so all the better. 😀 Just don’t read all that much. I’ve got books I’ve bought that have sat on the shelf for years. I need to do something about that. 😀
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You guys are bad at convincing me.
I just want to participate in monsters and the hunting thereof while people are actually still playing it. By the time I manage to get an AU 3DS copy everyone will have moved on, and I can’t play that online anyway. 🙁
Maybe I should just wait for MH4.
I like my Wii U, but I don’t love it. Before LEGO City came out it sat gathering dust next to the TV, really not used at all. Now that I’m done with LEGO City it’ll probably start gathering dust again. It’s a shame, but that’s the way I feel about it. If you’re after the console just to play Munster Hunter for a while, you’ll probably have fun but it might not feel like a good purchase later down the line.
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Pikmin 3 and Rayman Legends for me as well, but the fact that none of these games are out is annoying. 😀
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guh, when will we get Pikmin 3? If I don’t have one by then I’ll Instabuy a Wii U when that hits.
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I’m still tempted purely for Monster Hunter, but having it on 3DS alleviates that a bit.
I still suspect there’ll be a hardware revision of some sort down the track, and there’s no news about Pikmin yet.
Nice to have, but certainly not compulsory yet. Mine doesn’t get used all that much, tbh. Doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy it though.
For all those not on twitter, it looks like I have some work now! w00t!
2 part time gigs! One working in the workshop of Dr. PC, and the other doing some part time gigs at schools!
Still not sure if how much I’ll get out of each yet, but for the moment Dr. PC has a bit of a backlog, so there’ll be enough for me to do 3-4 days a week for a bit at least!
Certainly a long way to go to get out of my bind, but I’m getting there at least!
Now I just need to find somewhere to live.. Only got til the 25th :\
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Grats on the work man! Hopefully it turns into permanent part time or full time for you and gives you some sense of security.
So what they’re not renewing your lease or are they terminating it? =/ Seems a bit unfair if you’re now able to pay rent!
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For some reason the owner’s just decided not to renew it, but he’s advertising it for new tenants. Agent has no idea why. I was only behind on my rent once in 12 months, so shouldn’t have been that. Bummer is there’s only one other place around that’s less $ than this one, and rightly so.. it’s a dive.. Looks like I’m gonna be facing a $10-$15 a week hike :\ The ones I’ve looked at so far are nicer though. Just hope I can actually afford it.
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re: the elder scrolls online:
in all honesty, if the leaked video is representative of the current state the game is in, and not early alpha footage, they seriously just need to can it…. right now…. that looks appalling.
its disappointing when you look at what could have been with Copernicus (38 Studios) which even in its early alpha stage looked quite incredible, and then you look at this…
JUST GIVE US A 2-4 PLAYER SKYRIM COOP MODE AND WE’LL BE HAPPY!
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well… You’ll be happy.
I dont really want to see multiplayer anywhere near a non-MMO specific Elder Scrolls game.
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Considering how crap the combat system is and the main draw being exploration and discovery multiplayer doesn’t seem like it would work in any way shape or form.
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Crap combat? Skyrim has one of the funnest and most immersive combat systems I’ve played in an RPG.
Co-op would be a great fit for a game like Elder Scrolls. Can anyone honestly say that when running around Skyrim they didn’t wish they could have a friend or two beside them, fighting dragons and exploring dungeons together?
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I can honestly say that I would not want to see an Elder Scrolls game with multiplayer, other than the MMO.
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Have a crack at Dark Souls and see how well the combat holds up.
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“Dark Souls \o/” -
DARK.SOULS.
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Dark Souls combat it okay. Melee’s fun enough, but the range stuff is really clunky.
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Skyrim combat really isn’t that good. Mechanically it’s very shallow, it doesn’t matter what kind of weapon or armor you have, it’s the same slash-slash-block-slash business just with different stats. Compare that to Dark Souls, where your armor affects how well you can dodge and you have different weapon types with completely different characteristics. Spears are the only weapons that can attack while blocking, you have different kinds of swords, slashing curved swords, straight swords, thrusting swords… And each individual weapon has its own moveset, so even weapons within the same class are all different. That’s actually really brilliant and I wish more games did that. Compared to that, Skyrim’s combat really looks rather lackluster from a purely mechanical point of view. Add to that that nonsense with two-handers having less reach than daggers.
The game itself is a “shallow ocean”. It gives the illusion of depth due to it’s scale.
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@freezespreston
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Far more eloquently put than I could possibly hope to.
You should change your name to Wordsmith.
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realistically though 35, it would be optional. if you dont want it, go nuts into the single player. its an option though for those who do.
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every game in the series so far has been very consciously designed as a single player only title.
throw in a 2nd player, even if its optional, & you start getting things like ‘oh, you’re the once in a generation dragonborn… and so is your friend, it would seem.’ each game in the series is based around one person, being the only person capable of doing something awesome, not one person & 3 other guys.
then theres just the balance issue, are there gonna be things you cant do if you dont have a co-op partner? or are there things that are gonna be way too easy with 2+ people?
how would they balance situations where you’re stealthing it up, sneaking into a bandits camp & then your warrior mates just run in swinging? I dont think that’d be very fun.
I think multiplayer would detract from TES to the point where it would be a crap game.
building a new IP with a similar setting, built from the ground up to cater for co-op, however… that’d be fine. just not in TES.
Edit: Spelling
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Or just picking flowers. If someone picks all the flowers for a subquest (or hunts all the animals, or whatever, I don’t know I haven’t played a TES game since Oboringion), what’s the second person to do? 😛
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flower arranging.
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Resisting urge to use the word ‘rim’ in a joke is getting harder… 😛
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take a page out of the mmo books; the story can continue as per usual focusing on one player, so every player is the dragonborn but in theyre own instance. mmo’s have been doing this for years and it works. “you are the chosen one…. or at least one of the 3 milion chosen ones subscribed to this mmo”
increase difficulty, increase number of mobs, and bang. trhe game still retains the single player experience even in multiplayer, the only thing that changes is that you have a few buddies slaughtering things with you.
happy days.
I still to this day don’t understand why multi wasn’t made as an option from Oblivion onwards. I mean I know it could detract from the immersion for some people, but the potential for co-op in say, Skyrim? Imagine it. Even if not co-op, just allow 2 or more people to exist in the same world and do their own things, or together if they liked.
I know I would have played a lot more of Oblivion or Skyrim if that were the case. I understand the depth of the world, the lore, the sheer amount of stuff in the game – but being forced to do it alone always got to me. Fine if that’s your bag, but what if it’s not?
As long as they left the single player completely unblemished by the addition of co-op/multi I don’t see why they couldn’t.
This Elder Scrolls MMO just looks absolute turd.
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I understand the depth of the world, the lore, the sheer amount of stuff in the game – but being forced to do it alone always got to me.
totally agree cody…. i would have played so much more skyrim…
i can understand multiplayer is not some peoples cup of tea, but personally, ill take a coop game over single any day….
Was watching The Force last night and they were posing as a 13 year old girl online and had some guy telling them what he wanted to do to them while showing them a webcam feed of him playing with himself. He organised to meet them but had to drop his kids at school first. Cops were waiting for him and nailed him. He claimed he was just worried about the girl and was coming to save her. Good feeling when you see these creeps fall hard.
Except you really feel for the guys wife and kids. They turn up at the house where the unsuspecting wife is and tell her that they caught her husband and father of her children trying to molest a little girl. Seems like that’s life destroying stuff.
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I guess the issue is that he’d have been charged with something like intent to… whatever the crime is. Corrupt a minor, or something.
Plus a lot of these “to catch a predator” type stings border on entrapment, even though it’s usually for a greater good. He fapped on webcam for someone that he thought was underage? If I fire a gun off-target and think I hit someone, do I get charged with murder?
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Can’t imagine what that would be like. I think I’m going to teach my kids to be afraid of everyone, even if it stunts them socially. Everything about that entire situation is utter worst nightmare stuff 🙁
Edit: here’s a semi-related rant I wrote about 2.5 years ago.
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Where’s the line you draw between a nosy overprotective parent and allowing the kid some freedom? Always struggled with that one.
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I don’t know, man. I think, from what I’ve heard, that’s the one that all parents struggle with.
My parents were overprotective until I got my P-plates, and then the doors were totally opened. I would recommend against that approach – it was kind of jarring 😛
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I couldn’t imagine trying to toe that line. My parents did an amazing job. They reigned me in when they needed to, but gave me enough freedom I went off the rails a few times. But they were always there to give me advice and also tell me when I was being a little shit. They always bought me up with the knowledge of right and wrong. If I chose to ignore it, I dealt with the consequences. Often I knew better, but you know how it is. You do it anyway, thinking yourself exempt from the rules, or the consequences wouldn’t be so bad in your case.
I’m the youngest of two children, and always felt kind of sorry for my older sister (four years older) because I don’t think she got quite as much freedom. I mean the difference was relatively small – I think it was simply because she was the first, and they’d kind of figured more out by the time it was my turn to be old enough to make silly decisions.
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Sorta not but kinda related; Covert security caught a guy stealing in my store one time. He stole some kid’s movie on DVD. We had him in the office waiting for the police when he said his wife and kid were waiting for him in the car. I had to go out to the car and tell them that Daddy wasn’t coming out any time soon, and that he’d be going to the police station.
Turns out that mum didn’t drive, and they had no money for a bus.
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It’s an unfortunate reality that out there people who have people relying on them might still be committing crimes. I mean, if I went to jail for touching kids or something my second biggest regret (after being caught and going to jail for a crime even other prisoners will shank me for) is that my wife will have no one to support her.
I’d be ruining two lives, not including my victims. I mean, it’d negatively affect each person in my family and I’d probably kill myself just so as to reduce the overall shame they’d have to feel by having me continue to exist, but the main thought running through my head would be “who’ll take care of my wife?”
Then again the fact that I have that level of empathy means I’m probably not the kind of person who’d commit those kinds of crimes to begin with, so it’s not like I’ll lose any sleep over it.
Has anyone got some really good images of the wanderer from Journey? I’m concerned that I’m not going to get the head right.
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Try emailing ThatGameCompany. They might have some hi-res art. Just tell them you’re making an outfit. It wouldn’t hurt to ask.
Another alternative is some TAYbies have the Journey art book. Maybe they can look through it and see if there is a good image of the wanderer. I think @greenius and @notorious_r have it.
Finally, load up the game and spin the camera around a lot 🙂
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My coworker on the other side of my partition goes out for a smoke maybe 5 times a day every time she comes back and sits down, I’m assaulted with the stench.
As a reformed smoker, even second smoke doesn’t bother me, but stale smoke is the worst.
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Yeah I’m fine with second hand smoke smell, but when it’s on people’s clothes and that it smells horrible. Plus it smells like my grandad, haha.
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I quit nearly 5 months ago and smelling that stale “just had a smoke” odour on a person is terrible. Every time I feel retroactively awful for inflicting it on other people for 8 years.
I’m amazed that I never noticed it until I quit.
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The lord said to moses,”come forth and win my love”, but moses came seventh and won a toaster.
This was stolen from Reddit
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Dear God,
I really didn’t want to laugh at this, but You gave me my sense of humour, so it’s all Your fault.
Sincerely,
Shane
@freezespreston http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/news/a473003/dark-souls-2-box-artwork-revealed.html
Edit: @strange @35 @sernobulus @alexpants @greenius @blaghman and @TAY.
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Despite the hysteria when the original director stepped down, every time this new guy opens his mouth, I feel a little better. He seems to know which end of a Souls game is up. 🙂
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first thought is that is a really boring design.
just me or is anyone else sick of box art showing one guy (its always a guy), walking toward / away from the camera casually holding a weapon?
goddamn…. all the awesome concept art that From Software have to work with & they end up using the Call of Battlefield : Ancient Warfighter art template.
I’m sure the games gonna be great, but this art is really disappointing.
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I agree, man. I really loved this art: http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID6894/images/demons_souls_deluxe_edition_box_art.jpg
It’s definitely more in line with the despair/difficulty that (I think) was one of the big draw cards for the game.
Dark Souls 2 art (trailer mention):
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I liked it back in the day when the box art gave you no idea what the game was like and it would always look much better than the game itself because of the grafix limitations. Old box art was the best.
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Yeah, they’re all from the same template. Go into a gameshop and cover up all the titles and you’d have a hard time figuring out which game was which. And you could forgive anyone without much knowledge to assume all games are the same.
Usually the first game in a series has the best art,and the sequels then following them have that “one guy with a weapon who doesn’t give a shit” kind of look to them. I guess because new IPs are always considered a gamble these days, whereas sequels get less love and care from marketing because they’re cash cows.
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It’s the same character from the gameplay vid.
There’s a theory stating:
It’s a young Artorias, before the events of Dark Souls. I personally don’t subscribe to this theory, though, because playing as an actual character will limit the customisation options of class and gender too much for the taste of most players. I think it’s just because they felt they needed a consistent avatar for marketing, and they chose the hurly burly fur-lined armour man. -
Did one of the Dark Souls editions have just a picture of a bonfire or am I just wishing that was the case? Just a bonfire would be kind of awesome.
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That’s cool, but it still has a person in it. I was thinking more just the bonfire itself. A kindled one.
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While looking fora picture I came across this:
http://www.etsy.com/transaction/67714257?
I need one. Looks like he doesn’t make them anymore though. 🙁
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WOW. If you see anything like this in the future, can you please order two and I’ll reimburse you! 😀
Also, $75 for postage alone :\
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Where’d you see that bit about $75 postage?! That seems a leeetle excessive.:P
Oh and warning, this is a dangerous link:
http://www.etsy.com/search/handmade?includes%5B0%5D=tags&q=dark+souls
If anyone draws me some pictures like those decals that can easily be used as stencils I’ll love them forever, by the way.
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I knew Freeze was around because he was extolling the virtues of Dark Souls’ combat system. SORRY! I know half of TAY is actually interested, I shouldn’t single people out.
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I beat the taurus demon over the weekend. hoorah!
then was one hit killed by some jerk, then stun-locked to death by a mob of jerks before I could reclaim all the souls I lost.
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SOULDS
Edit: And you already caught it. As I’ve not played the game, I’ll make that my only contribution to this discussion.
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After talking with Masha and Strange last night, I really feel like playing Ico and SotC!
Edit: Seems like it’s the awesome world exploring of Dark Souls, without the fighting. 😀
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Do it!.
it’s a barren world but that adds to its mystery when you explore. (Also there are some things that look like stargates-you’ll know it when you see them)
Also just doing tricks on Agro( your horse) is fun to watch.
I want to play SOTC again. Damn! I have a huge backlog 🙂
Btw when you start playing ICO let me know. We can play the game together seeing that I barely started it.
Edit: I wrote seem instead of see.
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I installed Dark Souls on PC last night and it looks like dirty arse. 🙁
I can’t get this DSFix thing that’s supposed to make the game not look horribad to actually work. 🙁
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Really? I just downloaded the file and fiddled around with the “.ini” file. Is there something inparticular that’s not working or is it just completely not working?
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But if I do that I get a literal off-center window where I can’t see the edges of the game. 🙁
EDIT: Most games, Windowed Full Screen works fine. But for this it was showing all the UI chrome and didn’t hide the taskbar and stuff. And the text still looked like I was looking at a bitmap font rendered at 320×200 and blown up to massive.
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Have you messed with the ini file yet? It will do basically nothing unless you mess around with the ini file.
EDIT: As far as the text goes I think you can download a high res text mod that should fix that.
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Yeah I tweaked a few things. Increased resolution and stuff.
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Can’t remember what I did, but I had issues with DSfix too. Part of the solution was running Steam as admin (Steam copy) so the ini would apply properly, but there was something else, too.
I’ll think on it and let you know if I can remember what I did.
Doctor Who fans: What did everyone think of last night’s episode? I liked it.
Interesting setting, felt like an undersea version of Alien at times. Liam Cunningham was great as Captain Zhukov, not much of a change from ship captain to submarine captain. The British accents annoyed me slightly, but maybe not as much as fake Russian accents would, so that’s a bit of a wash.
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I think since The Hunt for Red October, English (or Scottish) accents are perfectly acceptable for Russian submariners.
I think this is the best episode Mark Gatiss has ever written. Really nailed the characters and made what could be a clunky old monster awesome. Only downside for me was that the CGI face outside of the suit was a little too expressive, made it look too animated. -
This is worst thing about my husband being away. I have to wait for him before I can watch Doctor Who (and Game Of Thrones,for that matter).
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I liked it overall.
Spoilers, obviously!
I felt the end of the episode was a little rushed though. Loved the first three quarters but then it kinda seemed to go “Actually, no more runaway alien, he’s back in his armour and leaving now”. Really liked the homages to Alien.Didn’t really mind the British accents, though it would’ve been clearer that the crew actually were supposed to be Russian (without having to point it out like they did) if they had the Russian accents
Next episode is the one that looks great, to me!
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had a thought last night though. Moffatt should bring back the multi-episode stories. 45 mins isnt long enough for a set-up, escalation, a climax & a decent resolution.
what I’d love to see, if only as an experiment, is a 12 episode season, made up of four 3-part stories, each possibly containing hints to a larger arc that links the 4 stories together & is resolved by the end of the season.
I mean, at the moment, there are far too many arc & plotlines that’ve been going for multiple seasons that havent been resolved yet.
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Could say the same about My Kitchen Rules. 😛 (But you’re right, it’s pretty disposible and stupid, but I like talking to the group about it. Haha.)
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At least The Amazing Race fully embraces that it’s a game show, unlike all the cooking/singing/reno shows that try and act like they’re life changing serious business shows with thrown in “gameplay” elements. Plus, no douchbag judges making stupid comments.
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Locations can be pretty too. I like the random dogs that always seem to follow the camera crews too.
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REALITY TV KILLED JESUS, AND IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF EVERY GOOD THING THAT HAS EVER DIED IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
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The Mole starts soon, doesn’t it? :O I’ve been seeing ads!
EDIT: And yeah, Amazing Race. Cool 😛
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What was that show about? I mean, I know one of the players is sort of a double agent type character trying to screw people over, but what did they actually do/what sort of games did they play?
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From what I remember, it’s a bunch of people doing tasks based on teamwork. One person is The Mole who ‘wins’ when the team loses. At the end of the episode everybody privately votes who they think The Mole is and the person least correct goes home (obviously The Mole never goes home because they always know who they are). I’d have to google for more specifics… it’s been a long time since I last watched it 😛
I’ve always wondered how they cast The Mole though. It’d be a pretty bad show if they were terrible and got caught out early on.
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The person least correct? How do they determine that? Either they’re correct, or their not. How can voting for one wrong person make you more incorrect than voting for a different wrong person?
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Ah sorry, I knew I forgot something. Memory is failing me!
The end of the episode is a quiz, not a vote. They get asked questions like “What colour shirt was the mole wearing in this challenge”, etc. Person with the most incorrect answers goes home.
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I am so confused :/
If this becomes another weekly discussion thing then sign me up! US or AU?
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If you can stand THE ADS. It’s Australian, on Channel 7. I’m assuming after My Kitchen Rules finishes.
But yeah, it’d probably be great for discussions! They don’t tell us (the audience) who the Mole is either so I’m sure it’ll be ripe with speculation each week 😀
EDIT: If you’re confused, go find an old episode on Youtube or something. I don’t think I’m explaining it very well 😛
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@powalen
Awww :/, fuck that!
Sounds like fun but I want to download them and watch on my PC since I don’t watch TV shows on a TV :P. Australian stuff is hard to download too but I guess if it’s got a decent enough seeder thingy I’ll check it out!
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hello friends!
mortal kombat came in the mail, because i am so with the times.
played more monster hunter.
also tried out trouble in terrorist town, which is fun if people don’t take it seriously, but this is the internet, and everyone takes it seriously. some angry dudes in that game screaming “RDM RDM” every time they die.
Where’s @jimu today, I wanna talk to someone about Guacamelee and I”m pretty sure he’s the only other person playing it.
@dc
Also check out The Long & Winding Road and Space Oddity. Real shivers-down-your-spine stuff 🙂
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Incredibly creepy. Haha! Good atmosphere though. Did they change some of the lyrics? D:
Edit: Also, hope you’re well SmurfyDog? 😀
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Had a migraine most of the night so called in sick today, but feeling much better now, just tired 🙂
No idea if some lyrics were changed.
The 2 albums were recorded in the 70’s by a music teacher in Canada. Someone found them and released them as a single CD in 2001 which is when I got it.
The Langley Schools Music Project – Innocence & Despair-
I remember you mentioning them ages ago. (I think when I linked to Flame Trees from the movie Little Fish.) Really cool, but too unsettling for my liking. Haha.
Glad you’re feeling better! You’ll sleep well tonight!
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Thanks man. Yeah, an early night is definitely on the cards for tonight.
I totally forgot I’d already pointed it out to you. Sorry dude :/ I was just listening to the album and I know you like the song Desperado, so when I heard it I thought of you.
Confession;
I really like the Karen Carpenter version of Desperado too
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Don’t be sorry, man. I like when people talk to me. Haha! Also I don’t think there were any good quality links last time. I like the Johnny Cash version. 😀
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So I picked up the D&D bundle on GoG the other week, despite the fact that the only game I didn’t previously own was Demon Stone (although I had played it, finished it, and returned it to EB Games back when it first came out). Digital copies is nice and reasons, okay? You can’t judge me!
Anyway, I decided I’d play Icewind Dale again on the weekend, but after I installed it and started playing, I remembered that it was not that great, and I had been reminiscing about Icewind Dale 2.
So I installed Icewind Dale 2 and all most of the memories came flooding back. I spent a bit too long going through the intro because I was skipping through dialogue and then getting lost.
Anyway, now that I’m back in the swing of the game, I was going to start again with a new, more interesting and better built party. And then I thought I should name characters after TAYbies, but it’s not nearly as cut throat as XCOM or interactive as Pokemon. It’s a much slower burn, and a more rigid storyline.
But who wants to be an adventurer?
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The Icewind Dale games are tremendously underrated. IWD2 especially. The only thing I didn’t like about it was the character portrait and especially the voice choices were shit.
But they made up for it by having all the original Icewind Dale portraits and voices so I basically re-created my IWD party.
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I always had trouble with Baldur’s Gate, but for some reason, Icewind Dale really grabbed me and wouldn’t let go.
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I never enjoyed the IWD/IWD2 concept art “portraits” after playing through the Baldurs Gate games with what felt like actual portraits.
But going through the IWD/IWD2 ones again over the weekend and I really like them now. I guess that means I’ve matured in my appreciation of art or something.
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Hanging out with friend yesterday.
Friend # 1 “Hey, you know (friend # 2) doesn’t know you’re back from Australia, right?”
Me: …..
NEXT DAY AT 8 IN THE MORNING
Friend # 2 opens door to pick up paper, finds me standing within a foot of his door
Naturally, I throw the paper at his face
“THE FUCK, SATURDAY? AREN’T YOU IN AUSTRALIA RIGHT NOW?”
“HOLY SHIT I CAME BACK TWO MONTHS AGO, GET WITH THE TIMES MAN”
*walks off very angry*
EDIT: Accidently a word.
So I invariably posted a long overdue rant about Fallout:NV on the Metacritic article. Sometimes I forget just how much that game releasing busted pissed me off.
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With Obsidian’s track record I can’t help but wonder if Project Eternity will release in a similar state, and if so whether the kickstarter backers will accept that or not.
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I think a lot of NV’s issues had more to do with the game engine rather than the developers. I mean, Fallout 3 & Oblivion were also buggy as hell when they came out.
Eternity is using an updated Unity engine, so hopefully they’ve got it under control this time.
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havent played either of them, so yeah… I could very well be wrong.
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Not sure about alpha protocol but weren’t Obsidian forced (or put under great pressure) to push KotOR 2 out early?
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They were, but what’s that saying? Twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern. Obsidian makes decent games, but I don’t have much confidence in their quality control.
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Once is a coincidence, twice is a trend, three times is a problem.
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I’m a little over Obsidian to be honest.
I love their games, and their storytelling is second to almost no-ones… but every game of theirs has some large flaws.
They complain about bad engines, or publishers shifting deadlines, or having to cope with some enormous catastrophe… but it’s always happening to them. At some point you have to start asking what the common factor is.
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Fallout 3 and Oblivion helped the whole Bethesda bugs being a running joke thing, but NV was horrific. It was bordering on unplayable to being with. Fallout 3 had issues, but a helluva lot less than NV did – Fallout 3’s biggest issues came as more and more DLC was released. It got flakier and flakier, but NV was fucked from the base product.
I understand the NV GOTY version is pretty well perfect though.
As for Oblivion, I haven’t played it enough, tbh.
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much the same deal. pretty damn buggy on launch, got fixed for the GOTY ed.
As for NV, I didn’t get any game-breaking bugs, but I got plenty of weird graphical & animation glitches. Still, now that its fixed, its a damn good game.
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I was always a bit bitter about it too, because it looks like there’s a brilliant game there. Might get over myself one day and pick up NV GOTY for my PS3 or somesuch.
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I feel like I’m really lucky when it comes to Bethesda games. Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Skyrim all worked near perfect for me. I’ve only played one FO3 DLC though, Broken Steel, so who knows.
NV crashed for me, a lot.
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After NV they realized they were getting a really bad reputation for buggy games and spent a long time refining their bug tracking processes etc apparently and their games are apparently vastly improved quality-wise as a result. Though I haven’t played anything they’ve put out since then to know for sure. Dungeon Siege III didn’t sound like it was buggy, just kind of mediocre.
I need the new Space Hulk video game right now, please.
If anyone finds it, just tuck it down the front of my shorts and I’ll do the rest.
So… I’ve decided I’m going to buy and finish Mirrors Edge.
I blame all of you for this… all of you.
Even you in the back…
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My fave first-person game ever.
I enjoyed (general barely-spoiler advice re: achievements):
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I didn’t even know there was an achievement for that when I first played it, but I was sort of playing like that anyway because it felt right from a story perspective. In the end though I did start using guns, because I’d already accidently thrown a cop off a building so I figured since I was already a murderer I might as well make things easier on my self and shoot some people who were trying to kill me.
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TAYlist for the 15th of April 2013 TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by you, the request makers
Panic At The Disco – Nine In The Afternoon
Daft Punk – One More Time (Requested by @BDKIAF)
Mario – Here I Go Again
Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express (Requested by @redartifice)
ACDC – Money Talks
Whitlams – Thank You
Alien Ant Farm – Smooth Criminal (I actually like this version more than MJ’s)
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit (This one’s for you @Virus__, courtesy of @FreezeSPreston)
Emma Louise – Jungle (Requested by @Sughly)
Laura Marling – All My Rage (Also requested by @Sughly)
Good Charlotte – Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous
Billy Joel – Only The Good Die Young
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Oh… TAY, I don’t know if there’s a word for the exact level of disgust and dissapointment I’m experiencing.
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@doc_what Youtube introduces Tape Mode. I hope you’re getting fiduciary consideration for this.
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You know what would’ve been a good April Fools prank? Putting a Tape Mode filter over every video and requiring that it be rewound after watching it 😛
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Sadly it’s not available on the JVTD 80s trailer. That would have been… Interesting.
Man, clearly YouTube ripped me off.
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My 92yo Nana loves tech. She doesn’t always get it, but she loves it when she sees it in action.
I want to show her some pics on my iPhone, I just hand her the phone and show her how to swipe through. Nana says “this is your telephone that I call you on when we talk? Amazing!”She once told me that she’s a little bit jealous of the world we are living in – that she didn’t have all this when she was younger.
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I showed my grandma Google Maps once and she thought it was the tool of the devil. Haha. We’re gonna be jealous of the distant future tech too, I suspect. 😀
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My Nana loved Google maps when I showed her street view, because the street view of her house had my car parked out the front!
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My grandma thought it was live too and started talking about the government spying on us. XD
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Gotta love Nanas! 😀
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@freezespreston @cakesmith re: youtube and ads.
they are stupid.
just had one asking me if I wanna watch an unskipable 90 second ad, or have a 30 second unskipable ‘commercial break’ halfway through the video.
that is pretty damn rubbish.
Edit: sorry Freeze, it was Cake that posted the original comment on the last page…
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Under what circumstances do they come up? I dont think I’ve ever seen one. I mostly use iOS and Firefox with adblock.
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They come up if the person posting videos has opted to make money from their videos through advertising. I don’t know what Adblock does to the process 😛
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first time I’ve seen one like that. just read @shane’s link about Tape Mode & just clicked on the first video on youtube’s front page. using chrome, no adblock.
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dang.
Haha ahhh now I guess I’m watching the set again. ME AND MY COUSINS AND YOU AND YOUR COUSINS
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Haha, you got 1 sec more of their set. You win. 😛
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Did you see if Grimes was on the youtubes? Really want to see her, but cant see her on the rewinds…
Nevermind, found a Polica encore, this will suffice :3
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I can’t see her on the schedule, same with Sigur Ros. Maybe they didn’t broadcast everything?
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BLASPHEMY! Or something. I’m sure something will pop up recorded by someone somewhere at some time. Maybe.
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I just received a box of box cutters at work but I don’t have a box cutter to open it with, oh the irony of it all.
Sorely tempted to attempt painting these Space Hulk miniatures. Haven’t painted actively for several years and I have immensely unsteady hands, which unfortunately gets worse the older I get, but I’m willing to give it a go. Could always just do a very basic paint job on them and see how I feel about adding detail.
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While in Brisbane over the weekend we ducked into Games Workshop as I’d half talked wifey into buying the starter set (2 armies, Marines and Chaos) and saw the display models all painted up and got depressed as I know I’d never reach that level.
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Good work on talking the wife into it. I always felt a sense of melancholy reading the White Dwarf issues and feeling like a hack, but I reckon I did OK. As long as I was impressed with my own efforts, that’s all I cared about.
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So basically you trim the flash off your miniatures, prime them, paint the base color areas solid colors eg an Ork might get green skin, yellow shirt, brown club, and a dark green base. Then once that’s dried you dip the motherfucker into some varnish and then shake the excess off so that basically the varnish flows over the figure into crevices and stuff so that it adds depth. Then you spray with a matte finish and done.
I’ve never tried it myself but apparently it does an okay job and is very fast and fairly low effort for reasonable effect. Also the varnish forms a pretty hard, durable seal that protects the paint so it’s good for miniatures you’re going to bang together a lot in a box and stuff eg board games.
If I ever get around to buying Descent I will probably paint the miniatures this way. I’d do it for Space Hulk but it’s such a limited release that I can’t buy another one if I fuck up. 🙁
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Yeah that’s the only thing stopping me – but that does sound like a cool idea for just getting a quick paint job done though. Might just do a general paint jobbie on all the figures then see how I feel. I’d like to leave them unpainted, but it feels kind of wrong. Almost like I’m doing them a disservice. The quality of the figures themselves is great though. A lot of detail, and unique sculpts made just for Space Hulk 3rd.
Very pleased.
Yet to sit down and start cutting them all off the sprues though. maybe on the weekend.
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Talk of Skyrim on the previous page reminded me of this – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9eGtyqz4gY
Still amazing.
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30 second unskippable youtube ad, argh. Xperia Z, you just made my list of products not to buy.
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Alright, so, to relate to discussion from the last page:
Doctor Who:
I pretty much agree with 35, they’ve been enjoyable, but not particularly great. I’m okay with that though, because so long as they’re not actively bad, I get my campy British sci-fi fun. Also, I did like the Alien homages throughout the latest episode. Was nice. The way they wrote out the TARDIS seemed a bit odd, given they usually just choose to ignore the TIME TRAVELLING SPACE BOX, instead of writing it out. Also, there seems to be a bit of a focus on the Sonic in these last two. I know various writers wrote it out, considering it a bit of a deus ex machina machine(somehow moreso than the TIME TRAVELLING SPACE BOX(!)), but it would be interesting to see modern Doctor Who without it. Odds are though they’ll just kill it off, or something, and he’ll get a new one. I was thinking that he might give it to River, but that doesn’t make that much sense, given the one she had initially was just a modified Tennant one.
Also, while I’m here: Game of Thrones(that nobody will read since you probably won’t see it until tonight or tomorrow but shut up):
WHOAH! BABY PENIS! WHAT? WHOAH? WHAT? BABY WANG! JESUS? INFANT PHALLUS! WHOAH. I guess, at least, this episode had a mix of nudity. Woo? Sure.
Game of Thrones book stuff relating to episode:
I’m not sure how I feel about how the Jaime/Brienne rape thing was handled. It really made it seem like it was a “oh god, I can hear this, and I don’t really want it to happen, but it’s particularly bad because of the screaming” thing, whereas I remember it as him being more proactive about defending her in the book. I may be remembering it wrong though, need to reread them. Also, the Theon stuff is different, right? This wasn’t how it all happened, was it? They didn’t introduce the Bolton Bastard last season, and it seems weird, because isn’t he supposed to know about the Stark boys being alive? Seems like a bit of a change in that regard, which doesn’t really relate that much to this episode, it just occurred to me, since that was him at the end, right?
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Game of Thrones somehow downloaded in like, an hour. I assume that this house is filled with internet wizards.
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One of the best things about the first Matt Smith episode is that they took away both TARDIS and Sonic Screwdriver. Think they only gave it back to him in this one so he could threaten the self destruct. -
HI BLAGHMAN
Doc Who:
I noticed the Sonic Screwdriver more in the episode before this one and it was bugging me the whole time. It magically lifts doors, now it’s a shield, now it other stuff, etc. I prefer when it’s used as a tool for investigation more than anything else. /pickynerdGam of Thr:
Oh man this episode was so good. Except for the weird choice of music over the credits. Jaime lost his hand? Let’s play some sick ass bangin’ music! The Blackfish was excellent and I liked his scene alone with Catelyn, this is a rare point in the story where I think Dany is a compelling character, and those scenes between Tyrion, Bronn and Podrick were a good laugh. As for the ‘rape’ scene, I’m pretty sure the events are true to the books but not in the same order. Jaime loses his hand and later saves Brienne by crying out the whole sapphires thing (I think that was it, anyway), but I actually prefer it this way. Shows that his change in attitude towards Brienne isn’t just because he’s pitiable and lost his hand and etc. And yeah, none of this Theon stuff was in Storm of Swords. You only hear about stuff like this after the fact in Dance.-
DW:
Yeah, they seem to keep ramping up the Sonic’s power. I liked when it couldn’t open latched doors, or whatever, and it wouldn’t work on wood. Was nice.GoT:
Yeah. The dodgy version I downloaded started playing the credit music early, I believe, because it like, cut off the last few lines between Jaime and guyface. Was odd. And annoying. Oh, and yeah, I forgot about the Blackfish. He was great.-
GoT
Same thing happened to the end of my episode. I was annoyed/laughing/confused. It’ll be interesting to see how Theon turns into Reek. Also every scene with Tyrion was brilliant. Especially the start of the small council. And after Pod returns. Also yay dragons!
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Neither. PC.
You won’t like it though. You didn’t like Secret World and as a result clearly hat fun.
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My problem with The Secret World (and all subsequent MMOs I’ve played since) is I’m burnt out on them. WoW has ruined me. I fully intend to try it again at some stage.
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But that’s my point. This is an MMO. Not trying to talk you out of it, but if you’re burnt on MMO’s, this won’t help.
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…Injustice isn’t an MMO
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I read that as Defiance. Am I dyslexic or did you change it?
/facepalm
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It’s ok Nef, it’s Monday. I’ll let it slide.
#OldManNef
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I hate MMOs, but was always interested in The Secret World. Ragnar Tornquist designed it and he’s made two of my favourite adventure games of all time. (The Longest Journey/Dreamfall, not to mention the upcoming Dreamfall Chapters!)
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Haha, yeah, even that wasn’t enough to get me to play. 😀
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I puchased The Secret World and proceeded not to play it because I couldn’t think of a good name for my toon. 🙁
EDIT: Seriously, naming my characters is the most time-consuming thing I do in MMOs because I’ll sit and think for several minutes, come up with something good, then try it and it’ll be like NOPE TRY AGAIN DICKMAN. 🙁
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I utterly flogged that game and it was brilliant. Ended up quitting cos my mate who I played with started acting like a fuckrod so I didn’t want to play with him anymore. Also, there wasn’t enough endgame content at the time. Although apparently they’ve since introduced raids and such. I’ve probably forgotten how to play though. I was a mean healer there for a bit too.
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It’s worse the older the MMO is. Trying to make a new character in WoW at this point takes me half an hour because all the names that aren’t nonsense are already taken.
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What’s the worst thing is when you come back after a hiatus, find your server’s been merged and your characters have all lost their names and have to be renamed and their original names have been taken.
Happened to me with every single one of my characters in TERA and it’s why I don’t play. Happened to most of my SWTOR characters too.
Also games where names are global regardless of the server are annoying as well.
I also struggle more with ones where you have to create a first and last name. Makes it way harder because I don’t want to sound like some kind of pretentious wanker or something but also want to have a setting-appropriate name and not Imma Drood or something.
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TOR’s Oceanic servers are going to merge with the US ones, and I’ve already checked on the US server my server’s merging into, my names for my characters are already taken. Rather annoying. Not sure if I’ll continue playing after the merge anyway though because of ping.
TSW not that great with setting approprate names. First and last names aren’t unique, so that’s easy enough, but your username is your nickname and picking a nickname that’s not taken and actually sounds like a nickname as opposed to a username is really hard.
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Taken
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Reported for non-thematic name on RP server
I recently started playing TSW again, but I’ve been distracted trying out TOR’s new expansion (yes, I still play TOR occasionally).
Asked on main article, but will annoy you all by asking again;
Red Son or Blackest Night/Arkham City?
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I dont know much at all about the comics, but a Communist Superman sounds too crazy awesome to pass up.
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Ah, the dilema, hella cool Supes and Wonder Woman or about 5 other skins (most rather boring though)… hmm, I think I may have decided.
Good call 35, good call.-
What gets what?
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EB Red Son gets commie skin for Supes WW and Solomn Grundy.
JBHiFi Blackest Night/Arkham City gets zombie look for supes, batsy, WW and Cat Lady (maybe) also gets Arkham City skin for Joker, Batsy and Cat Lady.
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Where were you yesterday when I asked Doc? (I got it on 360…mostly because I need a reason to turn it on)
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Whooooa wai wait… Justin Vernon made a guest appearance on Polica’s set :O For a new song! :O
Errrmagerd. Link for any interested parties… ie… probably noone… :'( https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ucLeh4LgRFI#t=15312s
Attention!
We have two tickets to giveaway for Epica that Mr. Strange won. They’re for Wednesday night, Hi Fi Bar Brisbane.
Somebody take them or I’ll make @dc go. 😛
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Free concert tickets? SCORE! Easily sold for a profit! Cause a profit is anything!
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Buy one for me! 😛
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I nominate Virus to go in my stead.
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You don’t get that choice. You didn’t accept the tickets when transferrable ownership was available. Tough luck mate.
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NOPE! *folds arms stubbornly*
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You say that as if you had a choice.
Cute.
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We already went over this DC, I am out that night with mates, something about movies I just roll with what I am told. I forgot I had friends away from you guys ha.
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You so kind, but I can’t/won’t go. Haha. Thanks for thinking of me and for the love of God someone else take them before there’s consequences for ‘ol DC… D:
Could sell them outside for double the price? 😀
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If you think that last thing’s an option you don’t know metal-heads very well. We’d be more likely to give them away at the door than sell them at all. 🙂
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Metal is a family. Taking advantage of each other for moneys is not what we do. 🙂
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Also, how could you not want to hear stuff like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR7dIjxiXX4 ?!
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Honestly that’s awesome, you should go @dc gigs are AMAZING. Even just the atmosphere at times is great.
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YOU should go. 😛
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Nah, i’m not available Wednesday 😛
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Me either. I’ve got things to do…
You don’t know that I don’t… 😛
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Hahahaha. Oh DC. Where as I actually have plans lol.
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So apparently John Oliver was in Australia the other week and interviewed John Howard for The Daily Show. I hope it’s true, could be good!
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Nobody else is claiming them. Looks like you and Sughly are double-dating with me and Mr. Strange.
If you don’t go to Epica you’ll have to go to Eluveitie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1lXdLus2WI
Which would you prefer?Actually, you’d probably prefer Eluveitie because violinist. 😛
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Sughly’s got developer friends in town on Wednesday. Maybe they’d like to go. 😛
Also thank you, but NOPE! 😀
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VIOLIN!
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@DC secretly wants to go, but is afraid he’ll ruin his street cred if he says yes 😛
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Haha. I really don’t want to go and am just trying to say it without hurting feelings. Please don’t take offence. Just not my thing. 🙂 Thank you, though. Means a lot to think of me.
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@dc I know you don’t want to go and you know you can’t hurt my feelings unless unless you spoilerisate something.
Having said that, I wish I could find the post where you said you’d go to one of these upcoming gigs…. 😛
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You and your made up stories that I totally don’t remember. *shifty eyes*
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He’s gonna find that one post now and edit it, I bet.
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Nothing better than stabbing stupidly large creatures for the girl you love, you’re right you should play it.
Why would you not watch a movie trailer to not spoil a movie… then watch gameplay clips of a game numerous people say is amazing and spoil game moments for yourself ಠ_ಠ
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Self-loathing? Haha. Also, remember I’ve got a love/hate relationship with Japanese media. 😛 Also it was just the opening credits of both games.
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Ahh, this is ok.
Also, these games – dont have a Japenese or western feel about them. Very unique.
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Yeah and what Japanese stuff it does have, I like. (The music for example. Whoa!)
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If you’ve only watched the opening credits then there is even better music waiting for you.
SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS!!
Start playing so other people start to and cries of SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS can accompany the ones on dark souls 🙂
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Japanese stuff?
Such as? 😛
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The music. Also the character design in Ico I like too.
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The stories and character development they pull off with zero dialogue is mighty mighty impressive.
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Yeah, but I don’t get how that is “Japanese” 😛
It’s been a while since I heard the soundtrack but I don’t recall it having an Asian or Japanese theme or vibe neither do the character designs :P. Although I guess the main character in Ico kinda looks Asian?
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I’d like to see what you think of this opening movie(and music): http://youtu.be/dnEzkbdTa0I?t=21s
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I like the parts before the battle. The scenery and all that. Music is nice and atmospheric. Kind of lost me with the fighting though. 😀
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That intro is what made me fall in love with the game. The music more than anything. I was transfixed from the first second. 🙂
Whooooaaaa… thats actually incredibly cool
I see your game intro and raise you – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-eNBueHvQ0 #whosgonnastopthem
Great battle is beginning!
The Earth was really hollow! :O
Now it all makes sense.
Stop watching them and play the game!!!
Also you’re ruining solutions for yourself if you’re watching the Colossi fights. Half the fun is figuring out their weak spots. Some of the colossi are basically giant moving puzzles which is fun.
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In the end it’s not like Labor is a whole lot better. Either way we’re screwed in some form. Just need to pick which one will hurt less when it slides in.
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Eh, it’s been kinder under the Labor gov’t for my family the last 6 years than it ever was under John Howards reign as dictator.
Whilst I agree, yes both parties are deluded and have fucking morons in them, we are screwed, but potentially less with a government who is willing to keep money in the projects that are currently in progress rather than take the money out of it stop them and then claim “Oh look we saved money aren’t we good!”
Also NBN related, the whole idea of paying UPTO 5 grand to have fibre hooked into your house from the node under the coalitions scheme is just so bad in my opinion. Their whole concept “Look we save a few billion in the short term and get it “done” to a lesser standard faster!” to me just screams dodgy and wrong.. Uh.. Not a very good plan if you ask me, also replacing stuff when it’s on its last legs, yeah that’s like majority of copper in housing establishments in this country that date back to the early 80’s heh. Which is one of many reasons why we’re getting a shiny new telecommunications network!
Not sure what they have against moving forward with technology it seems to scare some politicians, why? Because we could easier have a say in matters? Even my father who doesn’t like technology that much isn’t that scared of the NBN, hell he understands it and supports it!
I dunno, I just wanna see the country continue to expand and grow with education, jobs, telecommunications and general infrastructure. I’ve never felt that is possible under such a close minded Liberal gov’t. Hell here in NSW they tried to claim (Nationals too) that they got the Sexton’s Hill Bypass done, when it was all Labor’s work. Also the NSW gov’t wants the federal gov’t to foot the entire bill still I think, last I heard they were kicking up a stink heh.
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Though saying that, we could end up with a stalemate like last election. Which could prove interesting seeing who actually wants to support either party this time around.
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Sadly it might not matter, if the Victorian Premier recent history is anything to go by, the original Premier (Brumby) got voted out because of overall public hate for him, only to find out that the person they voted in is even worse (Bailleu) and he even resigned, enter his replacement, Napthine.
I’m going to be really sad if the same thing happens for the PM level, where the Liberal Party gets voted in just because of the overall hate for the Labor Party, and only THEN people will figure out what a terrible mistake they’ve made until it’s already too late.-
Yeah, I know of people who have said they’re going to vote for the opposition simply because they “hate” Gillard. Sure she isn’t very likeable, I will agree. But to say you’re voting for the opposition because you simply “hate” someone. May as well not vote =/
Ohh yeah that whole thing in Vic with Bailleu was something. Sure sounds like the Liberals shot themselves in the foot down there.
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My step dad knew Bailleu from his old job in real estate, and he saw it coming pretty much about how he’d perform.
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Ah yeah. He doesn’t sound like a very likeable person I must say, is this the general consensus between most? 😛
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Yeah, pretty much :/
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Sounds like Victoria’s version of Campbell “Can’t Do” Newman..
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Watched Game of Thrones S3: Ep:2 last night
Damn you horse cart man! I was enjoying the Jaime Lannister and Brienne plot.
Laaaaawl (@bdkiaf – yah, these are amazing)
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HAHAHA! Relevant – Ico comic! Spoilers though 🙁 (no @dc’s) http://phuzzycomics.monicaray.com/comic/ico/
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JUST SO YOU JERKS KNOW I ALSO WATCH THIS SHOW AND HAVE BACKED LEXXY’S KICKSTARTER and I just want to feel included 🙁
Watched The Last Guardian trailer, oh man, that looks awesome too. I hope they don’t feel compelled to kill the dog critter to toy with my emotions. 😀
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The model was based on a bird, cat and monkey I think. There was a really good interview on the game. I’ll dig it up for you.
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Ok I found the article. here it is
http://kotaku.com/5368695/cat+owning-fumito-ueda-talks-last-guardian-and-how-the-ps3-helps-him It’s a cat-bird 🙂
I found another good feature on the creator but it might contain spoilers for Ico and Sotc so I’ll read through it over dinner then if it’s safe link it to you.
This paragraph might convince you to start playing them though
Vander Caballero of developer Minority calls Ico “magic” and says that he’s mentioned Ueda’s work “in 80 percent of the design meetings I’ve had in my career,” from a presentation where he suggested Army of Two’s main characters should interact with each other, to directly inspiring the emotion-based mechanics of Papo & Yo. David Cage cites Ico as an inspiration for pursuing nontraditional emotions in Indigo Prophecy. Phil Fish says Ueda’s work inspired him to strip the excess out of Fez.
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I actually was thinking that it seems like it has something I’d like to see more in Quantic Dream games: A sense of exploration.
Thanks Masha!
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And less David Cage giving you tutorials in a mockup set 🙂
I actually thought it was kind of cool in Fahrenheit.
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I liked that. It was like Rod Serling in The Twilight Zone or Alfred Hitchcock, most people thought it was all kinds of arrogant but I thought it was incredibly cool. 😀
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I’ll tell you what it looks like it has – a lot of similarity to Shadow and Ico. Go play them.
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So our pup has taken up refuge on my bed of late because she’s in denial about having to wear this lampshade haha.
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She got desexed, last week. So she needs that on so she doesn’t attack the stitches. The sooner it comes off the better, she’s too damn energetic and still hasn’t gotten use to wearing it haha.
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Beer musings #1: I want to marry a lot of women. Narrowing decision down to two or three for reals will be hard.
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Colon Pee has saved many a face from hitting the floor.
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Because… pee?
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I have decided I do not like Anor Londo anymore.
I dislike it so much I’m not even gonna emphasize Dark Souls properly. *nobody gasps*
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Bosses. Dude, you made good progress. I spent almost a week there before I got up to where you are! 😛
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Adventurers of Icewind TAY-le
Looks like more people want to be adventurers than I expected. Two slots left. I’m going to generate the first few now, and we’ll see how we’re going.
Edit: I’ll try and keep my gallery updated, you can check it out here: http://imgur.com/a/WDLGR#0
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Alright!
I tried to at least get something of each person’s character, while keeping in mind the best interests of a party that will survive the first encounter with a pack of goblins. Going to split this up over many posts because of links.Lady Strange – @strange
Metal! (also, she’s kind of the mum of TAY Company)!
Lady Strange is a Paladin of Ilmater. She is protects those who are unable to protect themselves, seeks to uphold goodness and justice, and is willing to bear the suffering of others. She wields a Great Sword, and leads from the front. She is skilled in Diplomacy, and will later invest some skill points into Alchemy (making things!). As a Paladin of Ilmater, she is able to multi-class as a Cleric of her order without penalty. If the party requires greater healing output later, she’ll likely take a few levels there. -
Se’rn Obulus – @sernobulus
Praise the Sun!
Se’rn is a Morninglord; a cleric in the service of the God of the Sun, Lathander. He’s all about jolly cooperation, and stands alongside his frontline allies, swinging hammer and calling down the power of Lathander to smite his enemies. His skill in Concentration and Combat Casting feat lets him keep the spells coming even in the thick of battle. -
Preston Icefyre – @freezespreston
A conjurer of cheap tricks and illusions.
Preston Icefyre is an Illusionist wizard who relies on his sharp wit and misdirection magics to get through. Occasionally these skills fail him, and he must fall back on slinging bolts of frost and arcane energy as backup. -
The Automaton – @tech_knight
The Automaton wields his twin swords with grace and finesse, moving with inhuman speed despite his heavy metal armour.
There’s no Warforged in Icewind Dale and the party already has a Paladin, so I’ve taken some liberties. The Tiefling racial modifications gave a bonus to Intelligence and stunts Charisma. The Automaton will likely take a level of Ranger for the free Ambidexterity and Two-Weapon fighting. -
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Blagglekins – @blaghman
Blagglekins is TAY Company’s minstrel. The cheery bard has a song for every occasion.
Gnome because why the heck not. Sorry Blaghs! Don’t hat me. -
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Party is full already.
I did originally have an idea of “The Artificer and The Automaton” as a kind of adevnturing duo that joined up with TAY Company.I guess nothing says I can’t still have that idea, and I do enjoy character creation. I think there’s a way to play (or mod) Neverwinter Nights/2 with a party of player-made characters, and NWN/2 has a greater range of options again.
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Mad Men was good.
Roger Sterling had about three lines and still made the episode. Just his expressions during the Jaguar pitch made me laugh. Good times. Don and Pete are both mofos.
I’ve run into a funny little problem with my java program… No idea why but it’s skipping over the first user input line :S
But hey, at least it’s not accounting and a) I’m actually feeling slightly challenged and b) I’m sorta enjoying doing it. I’m a bit worried though that “We haven’t learnt that yet” so I may have to change the code a bit.
But I did get 100% on the prac test 🙂 Not bad for 5 minutes work.
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If you want to throw it up on a pastebin or codepad site (and link to it), there are probably people around (like myself) who don’t mind trying to help with funny/weird bugs.
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Dunno if I should shove a uni assignment up on there 😛
But anyway, http://sdrv.ms/ZvA4Zg
The code is shocking I know, but I’m only playing around at the moment. Basically it asks for the name, but then skips the next line and asks for the birth year and works fine after that. It works fine without the if statement.
But yeah I’ll probably have to get rid of the if statement anyway and put it in a while loop instead.
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Problem is I’m limited to what we’ve been taught this year. That’s all we’ve been taught on line breaks. It’s stupid I know, but the assignment’s gotta be followed to spec.
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I’m too lazy to look at your code, but if all you’re after is functionality, add another line at the start, asking for, I dunno, blood type or whatever, and see if it skips that and goes straight to the name bit. And then bam, you’re done. Terribly, terribly lazy, would probably lose you marks for quality, and will make you ashamed of what you’ve done, but once the job is done, it’s done!
I was the worst Uni Student.
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Haha correct code is the most important bit 😛 And it does the same thing when adding another line in front of it. Weird. (By same thing I mean still skips the name input)
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Hey look Java, i’m now heading in the other direction I don’t need to face that nightmare again.
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Possibly a little terse, but I think it’s just to do with what Scanner uses by default to delimit tokens.
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Thanks for the help man 🙂 Unfortunately that didn’t fix it either (plus I doubt I’d be allowed to use that in this unit).
I did however streamline the char bit down to what you have though. I never even thought about that!
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So your problem is pretty easy to fix.
sc.next() -> input “y\n”, consumes 1 character, remaining in input: “\n”
sc.nextLine() -> input “\n” still in the input buffer, so returns an empty string and immediately continues to the next line
sc.nextInt() -> input works as normal.After you call sc.next() to consume the Yes or No bit, call sc.nextLine() to consume the rest of the line and it should work as you expect.
Be super careful with nextInt() by the way, as it also will not consume your newline character and if you decided to call nextLine() after it instead of nextDouble() I imagine you’d run into the same problem again.
EDIT: Why not drop the next() call entirely, just call nextLine() and return a string instead of returning a character and parsing it into a string? If it’s not “Y” or “y” it won’t evaluate to true and you won’t continue though the code anyway…
Hmm… I tried removing the if statement and it’s doing it without it there now, so I’m not sure what I’ve done!
Thankfully it doesn’t really stop me working on the rest of the program, so it’s all good until Wednesday night when you’ll no doubt hear about it again 😛
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Ico definitely has a Japanese design aesthetic with the characters too, atleast to me. Haha!The girls face especially has that anime quality to it.
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You’re saying that as if it’s bad.
Watch some good anime already and turn that frown upside down!-
Nah, Greenius said he didn’t see any Japanese influences on the other page in these games. Was just pointing some out. :S
Edit: Oh man, that post reads really dodgy without that context. Haha!
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-220/comment-page-4/#comment-1165102
I feel like I need to explain myself.
I was saying how I watched the opening credits of Shadow of Colossus and Ico just to see if it appealed to me, because in the past Japanese media had been kind of hit and miss to me. I liked what I saw. Sughly said it didn’t feel western or Japanese. I mentioned that I thought there was a lot of Japanese influence in the game, especially in the character and music. Aspects that I liked. Greenius said that he didn’t see that, so I tried to elaborate here. Definitely not dissing these aspects of the game, just pointing them out. Sorry if it reads all screwy, I’m not articulate. Haha.
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It’s alright, @greenius is a madman.
Japanese stuff has Japanese influence even if it’s trying to be not Japanese.
Same way Western stuff still has Western influence even it’s trying not to be.I say Jade Empire would be a good example.
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Shadow of the Colossus is super Japanese, I have no idea how anyone couldn’t see that.
Ko Otani’s music in it is pretty amazing too.
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Wasn’t sure about the music (watching the video now) since it’s been a while since I heard it but I remember it as being sort of ambient with tension building up into epic moments (if you get what I mean… :D). I also never thought the designs in both games were very Asian except for the faces I guess. More of some sort of ancient South American (Aztec, Incan, Mayan or something?) …I dunno!
Ya know, ruins, those type of statues and stuff!
I know you weren’t complaining but I just didn’t see the Asian/Japanese connections 🙂
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I dunno, just thought you were preparing a ‘D.C. is a racist’ thing again and I got pre-emptively defensive. Haha! The Mexican/racist stuff you guys said the other day genuinely upset me for some reason, even though I knew you were joking. 🙁 (As well as people questioning why I don’t like JRPGs and the like. I swear it’s just an aesthetics thing in game design and story telling. Not racism.) Been pretty anxious lately, though — it’s my problem and not yours so I shouldn’t let it impact TAY. 😀
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I sense this is going to be editted but THOSE MONSTERS! D:. If I recall I wasn’t there when it happened so I blame everyone but me. Don’t worry man, people have their own tastes and no one genuinely believes you’re a racist.Like I said, I was just wondering where you got the connection because I didn’t see it. Maybe I’m in the minority who didn’t see it, just wanted to clear things up 😀-
I am looking forward to playing these games though.
Don’t mind me and my screwiness. XD
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Edit it out if you want, I’ll do the same ;D
They’re excellent games! I’ve played them briefly on PS2 but didn’t have a proper sit down and complete them until the HD collection. So pretty! Some gameplay elements are pretty dated though and SotC can get extremely frustrating. I rage quit at one point 😛
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Oh, for real? They looked so relaxing in the videos/screenshots. Haha!
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I didn’t find anything particularly frustrating, let alone extremely frustrating, about the game. Some of the colossi can be confusing at first but the game offers enough hints. Also once you learn to telegraph the attacks some of the colossi make you should be OK.
This goes for all games of course, but no game is perfect. Go into it with an open mind and you’ll enjoy it. Or not, and that’s fine too.
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@masha2932 have you played the HD ones?
Apparently they changed some things and made it harder.
(not really spoilery, just gameplay mechanics)
Like the Colossi keep shaking constantly and I spend pretty much all my time hanging on while they’re swinging. I think I read somewhere that they shake more in the HD ones. I dunno, certain ones were really shaky and anything 😛
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Unless it’s Survivor 🙂
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I’ll reply to the Sotc comment here since the reply limit was reached above
That’s interesting, I didn’t know they changed the amount of times the colossi shook. I didn’t notice any differences though. I have finished SOTC HD twice. Are you sure when you reached that certain colossi you hadn’t upgraded your stamina by eating the white lizards’ tails? But you could be right and I just didn’t notice it. 🙂 -
I dunno, maybe it wasn’t changed 🙂
I just read it somewhere so maybe that’s just what they thought. Before the HD one I didn’t really play it until years before it so it was hard to compare but I mainly struggled with the later Colossi (which I never got up to before).
I thought you only got the HD one recently? Or did you buy it again for your reversible cover? 😛
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The first time I finished the HD collection I ‘rented’ it 🙂
Or Xenobladder?
Oooh! New footage for LEVEL-5’s Ghost Watch (3DS)! I’d completely forgotten about this game. Seems kinda Ni no Kuni-ish but with turn-based touchscreen battles. At first I thought the monsters were a bit ‘eh’, but now I think they’re kinda cool takes on Japanese spirits. Loved the music!
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NO POW! BAD POW!
Don’t get hyped for games that haven’t been announced locally yet! (unless it has?)
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It’s a new FPS shooter from Americompany!
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i saw the words NEW, GHOST and 3DS and for a minute thought there was a sequel to Ghost Trick announced on 3DS, and i got excited.
but then i realised.
nothing good ever happens to me.
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Man why do all the job ads on CareerOne look so dodgy.. All they ever seem to have is 1 line of text barely outlining the job and a mobile number, SKETCHY MUCH.
The Amazing Race 22×08:
Hockey players are d-bags.
Edit: Also lots of chances to catch up this episode for some reason.
Team YouTube need to tone it down.
Those snow dogs look like the Booze Hound icon from BioShock. 😀
Errrgh, stupid Travelocity. We get it, you’re a sponsor!
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I don’t know why but I read your edit then refreshed and read your other edits despite not seeing the episode yet 😀
I agree with your 2nd one!
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I read your first spoiler as well for some reason! I disagree (unless they did something in this episode). But I like them!-
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Yeeeeeeep. I get that feeling too 🙁
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I hope this isn’t an update-as-you-watch post!
Spoilers for the whole episode: I’m a bit sad Chuck and Wynona are gone, though it was fairly inevitable they would get booted eventually. I don’t know why you’d sign up for the race if you weren’t exactly running-fit 😛 Team Youtube is as annoying as ever (especially in the cheese challenge…) and I agree that the Hockey players are getting more and more… I can’t think of the word, but I don’t like them much lately 😛
And yeah, SO many places for the teams to catch up this episode. It’s like they were purposely trying to have as many people do the cheese challenge at once as possible for maximum mayhem (though it kinda failed in the end :P)
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Was hoping Team YouTube would make a catastrophic mistake. Wasn’t to be. 😛 I thought Chuck and Winona were complaining almost as much as the Doctors did. Haha. Also Chuck openly talking about his wife’s fitness wasn’t pleasing to her. I think the girl in Team YouTube was just as annoying as the guy this time around.-
As much as I hate the youtube guy, the girl always plays a solid game, and holds her own really well for a small, young girl. Felt really bad for her at the end. I’m purely no against that team because of her.
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Zombies, Run.
Putting the “U” into “Improuvement”
https://www.zombiesrungame.com/FreezeSPreston/
Shaved 2 minutes off my last run time.
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Ah but @DC has been to your place, Stalkius has probably simply viewed it on Google maps.
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I’ve got important navigating duties for knowing where you live. (That I always carry out flawlessly. *shifty eyes*) What’s Stalkius’ excuse? 😛
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I don’t know your address 😛
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You should watch this. You’d probably like it given previous posts.
http://mrjohnclarke.com/media/post/a-very-smooth-presentation/
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He kind of looks like Alan Jones, I am already sceptical 😛
Edit: Oh come on he even sounds like Jones o.o that’s scary.
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Okay, so one of the Epica tickets is gone. So that still leaves one for @dc. 😛
Also, Mr. Strange is home. \o/
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It’s a shame because I just found out that because Mr. Strange has VIP tickets and I don’t, I’ll barely see him. I won’t even be able to have dinner with him because he needs to be there at 5:30 for the meet and greet,after which he’ll stay inside to guarantee a good spot on the barrier because that’s part of what you pay for. So if I had a friend to hang out with it would be much more fun.
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After reading Shiggy’s Potaku article on SMB, I knocked one out in an hour. 1200 words in an hour, why the hell couldn’t I have ever done my uni assignments that easily? Gah.
@scree – Are you sure? I’ve been reliably informed that I give very good hugs
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If it takes you an hour to knock one out, it might be worth seeing a doctor
#BoysClubJoke
#SaveItForPage18
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Yay, second week in a row a lecturer’s been sick on a Tuesday! This time it’s business info systems. Both the lecture and tutorial. Woo!
And now I have plans to go on a trip with Oliver even earlier than info systems starts, so there goes the sleep in 😛
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Haven’t liked the past two weeks much but next weeks’ looks promising (hopefully I have not jinxed it).
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From what I’ve gathered, Blood Dragon is an eighties cartoon/cyberpunk/action movie expansion?
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Worth it for the soundtrack alone. It’s 80s-style electronic synth stuff along the lines of Hotline Miami.
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It’s standalone but it’s still an expansion of FC3. Basically it’s what in the 90s would have been a fan-made total conversion mod.
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@dc, SotC is a good game for exploring. If you head in the opposite direction to the colossi, you can explore for hours and never have to raise your sword for any reason 😀
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Even better doing it after the game.
Do not look DC kind of spoilery!
When you go back to where the colossi were and you can see that their dead bodies have turned into mounds. Really eery.-
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Phew, thanks for clarifying 🙂
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Episode 10 of The Americans was so damn good. Really a golden age of TV right now. Mad Men, Game of Thrones…
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That’s good to hear. Decent enough! 😀
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Oh lordy… where has this comic been all my life! http://phuzzycomics.monicaray.com/comic/generation-gap/
Damn… just when you think you’ve seen it all…
Oh, also, if anyone recommends that you watch School Days, run.
Run and watch something else.
Just watched the latest Game Of Thrones.
Mr. Strange’s reaction to the last couple of seconds was priceless. His mouth was still open when the credits finished. 😛
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Hahaha! I totes did a gasp, plus hand to the mouth. And would have remained that way, had I not needed to turn down the volume of that crappy crappy song.
Actually I also ran straight upstairs to tell mum (whos visiting me)… because noone else here watches it :'(
I was like OMG MUM! This guy, hes totally like an important guy right, and they got captured on the way to him being returned to his family and hes like this awesome sword fighter too right, thats important, and GUESS WHAT! Arm got chopped right the fuck off. Can you BELIEVE IT!? And then she gave me her best patronising smile and chuckle she could manage.-
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It was a cover of the jingle the dudes were singing earlier, no?
But agreed, still weird. Totally out of context :/
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Oh man, I wanna know what all this stuff means. Not even close to finishing downloading. Nothing spoilery yet, but be careful!
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Relly? I didnt use any special torrents and had it earlier this afternoon. You start it later mebe?
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Nope. Slow Internet. :'( All my other shows downloaded though.
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Oh man, Mad Men!
Mad Men and Linda Cardellini go together like macaroni and cheese. THE BEST! Really really good ep though.Fuck I love Mad Men.
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Hells yeah! Seems like a really substantial part too.
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Was this some random song someone dubbed over part of it in the torrent? I have a few people freaking out about it on Facebook. Apparently the .PROPER version on EZTV has it without it.
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Don’t know. Haven’t watched it yet as I forgot to download it. Ill probably just grab the right version.
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Totally a racist. 😛
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Thank you, colon p!
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*pppppppppppppppssssssssssssssssHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*
Colon Pee
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@jimu will love this when he sees it.
Also, I love your drawing(sketching?) style. I need to install and play Anna’s Quest. 🙂
Wow. o_O
Dark Souls.
Just got Crystal Soul Spear from Big Hat Logan. Does about 1200 damage to the Giants in Anor Londo while firing off faster than Soul Arrow.
o_O
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Killed a Lagiacrus, Rathian, Plesioth, Crimson Qurupeco, Great Wroggis, Barroths and a Brachyidios with @platinum-urchin @shiggyninty and @rizeo_O
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@mawt
Where’s your comment? It’s hiding in moderationnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
I assume it’s Monster Hunter related?
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Oh. I dont even know.
I posted a response to your Monster Hunter questioning in Old TAY. That looks like it’s actually posted.
So it looks like my post on page 5 is in moderation. Maybe because I edited in a second link? or because I posted 6 posts in rapid succession? Either way it’s kinda odd, because the posts are all there, even when I’m browsing as a Guest.
So everything there is what’s in the final post.
Also, I played Icewind Dale 2 again tonight instead of MH3U. Sorry. /o\
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Editting the second link was probably it, just tag me again when it’s up again or repost without the link 🙂
No need to apologise, you’ve already failed me by not playing Xenoblade *shakes fist*
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I don’t even own it /o\
I’m worried of starting to play it and I don’t like it, or I start picking apart what’s wrong with it. Just like what happened to Ni No Kuni.Edit: So you can’t see the other posts I did on page 5 for each of the adventurers?
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Xenoblade is far superior to MH3U.
But nowhere near Dark Souls.
Clear things up?
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Thanks Freeze, that cleared it right up.
Now I know how to say things that are wrong!
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You should. You’ve been saying them for a while now.
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I learned from the best!
(@blaghman)
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Today’s been horrible in a series of horrible days. I hope something gives soon. 🙁 It’s the reason I’m reacting weirdly to things. I’ve got no sense of perspective and a feeling of a high alert all the time about everything.-
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I thought “D.C.. Don’t. Hug. >:|”
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Dark souls!
I finally started a new game tonight, barbarian, chose master key as gift. Actually defeated the asylum demon, felt like an achievement this time, last time I spammed black firebombs. Got to firelink, and burg. Left the game there, I need to grind around the bonfire for a while so I can afford some more large arrows and get my dex up to 12 for the short bow. Also the starting axe is pretty awesome, I’m one shorting most hollows right now, str sitting on 20.
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Nah, I created a warrior in January, got to Blighttown, and got lost. So I thought I’d start again, only plan so far is to get the drake sword, hoping to get the black knight in burg also.
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Dark Souls \o/
Abandoned my Chaos covenant the sin-free way. I can’t reach the shortcut yet because I haven’t placed the Lordvessel. So I’ll join the forest covenant briefly so I can buy all that cool stuff from them, and then abandon them for the ninja ring. Then I’ll take down Sif, and Four Kings, joining the Darkwraiths as I go. Then I’ll abandon them as well, and return to my Chaos covenant to open the Sunbro shortcut. I think I have enough humanity stocked for this plan 🙂
Edit: Then maybe I’ll get on with the story :\
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I can’t help it,it’s forever ingrained now. Just like whenever I see @redartifice I always think ‘retarded face’.
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He doesn’t look that weird 😛
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After several hundred hours of play I’ve decided that too. Need the demon weapons, miracles and spells. Got all the pyromancies last week. Need 2 more spells for the spell one.
It really is a lot of work.
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Which is why I’m agonising over a meticulously planned playthrough, knock over as much as I can on the first run. I think I’m in a good spot to get all pyromancies, and most miracles and spells this run (maybe even all if I take my time to explore all the covenants, but it’ll be tough without online play). And that means I can just hit up shortcuts and do only the necessary areas in NG+. Hypothetically-
I realised halfway through this run that I stuffed it up and should have grabbed Velkas Talisman for the miracles and still stick with an INT build but I wanted Oswalds rapier so I stabbed him not realising you get it elsewhere.Sigh.
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You might have to guide me on this, but is it possible to:
Get me to buy it in my playthrough, and then summon each other to trade? I don’t particularly want the Talisman 😛 I’m SL60ish, if that affects things.Edit: I am on 360. But my PS3 character might be able to do this as well (he’s SL50ish, I think) if that helps…
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Thanks man but I have to get to NG++ anyway to get the third weapon from Sif’s soul so I’ll grab it next time.
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It’s too cold and too early. *grumble grumble*
Morning! I think this is my earliest appearance on TAY, so take it all in!
Dark Souls 2 \o/
Observation from: http://darksouls2wiki.wikispaces.com/About+Dark+Souls+2
“The player character was able to cycle through three pieces of equipment in each hand, and his roll speed seemed to be determined by which weapons he had equipped, rather than his total equipment burden. This is a peculiar departure from the first two Souls games, wherein all equipped items counted toward your roll speed. It is also entirely possible that the roll speed of the character is based upon the over-all weight of equipment visible on the player. This would mean that if equipment is in a slot but not in the main hand it may not count towards the player’s total weight.”
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Neither way makes much sense, TBH. Either everything affects weight, or nothing, but I guess you make allowances for game mechanics 🙂I kind of like the current Dark Souls way, though, because it really forces you to strategise. If I could run, roll and flip in light gear, press a button and switch to heavy gear instantly (even weapon/shield) for hard-hitting combat, it kind of takes away from the challenge a little.
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Totally. I didn’t mean that to sound like a complaint, but it does fundamentally change a lot of things 🙂
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Yeah, it’ll give me more things to fumble around with and accidentally equip. 😛
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I don’t even feel remotely bad praying for a FYAH EMBERLUHM street break.
I’m really looking forward to that game. So overdue.
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If it does break, I expect a loud, hype-filled TAY post telling me to buy it! You hear me!
(Vooks apparently thinks there’s going to be a shortage of stock so we might have to be quick :P)
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I always feel weird dropping my daughter off at school. Every other parent is about 10 years older than me. It’s seems to be the same at my youngest’s daycare too. But most of my friends that have kids are around my age.
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I’m the same, man. I became a parent at 24, and that’s definitely below the average in a heavily-middle-class minor-executive laden city like Canberra 🙂
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Damn straight, us public servants don’t have time for any stinky children in our fast-paced Canberra lives!
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Yeah,I’m not looking forward to that again next year. Although it’s not so much that the other parents are older, it’s more that they all seem like grown-ups. 😛
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you mean they all seem boring,
People are always shocked when they find out my age, they always think i’m like 5 years younger than i am, guess I am pretty imature, but it keeps me entertained 😀
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Toooootally. I talk to none of them, and feel completely awkward when one tries to talk to me. I avoid any and all events that involve socialising with other parents.
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I got Injustice yesterday and promptly played Dota 2 all night. I’m good at this gaming thing.
So not feeling it this week. Work is bumming me out for no apparent reason. It’s not even really that busy. Think I’d just rather be home playing video games or something.
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exactly how I’m feeling, I think it’s cause i don’t have enough to do at work at the moment, so I have too much time to think.
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as long as food & games are delivered that’d be pretty good. Although may need to leave the room for bathroom breaks, no poop bucket for me.
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Because I hear you guys hate money, JB currently has a 2 for $20 on some PC titles and there are some decent* titles.
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/game/pc-2-for-20.htm
*older
Also, whoever decided new releases on a Saturday is a good thing is a world class fuckwit. Nintendo seems to be making a habit of this.
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They probably think they’re being helpful. So people can play on release day without having to beg off from school/work.
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It’s infinitely easier for me to pick games up during the week. Everyone else releases on weekdays, so why does Nintendo have to be all hippy and shit.
Fuck hippies.
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Jesus man, I told you to check Steam! That was like…2 weeks ago…or whenever your birthday was.
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Gah.. i know i’ve been complaining about uni a lot, but i’m soooo over the following being my day:
Get up. Have a shower, eat some breakfast, go to work, come home study, eat dinner, study, go to bed, repeat.
The worst part is even with this bloody monotonous thing i am STILL somehow behind (perhaps because each chapter for each subject is about 40 pages long, and i’m usually doing 2-3 chapters of work per subject per week)… Not only that, but I am still yet to even get time to start on the 2 assignments i have which are due on the 7th and 8th of may…
The other night I actually broke down a little – i’m really having a lot of trouble coping – and these are both only second year subjects…. I just want some time to myself… but it’s impossible at the moment. And when i do have to go see family all i can think of is how i need to get back and get more work done. I have my best mates 30th this weekend, and again i know all i’ll be able to think about is all the study i’m missing…
On top of that, Bee and I both have more planning for the wedding to do… She’s doing 2 subjects too, and is living pretty much the exact same way, and working longer hours, but her whole outlook seems completely different to me – she is enjoying it because she knows the future benefit – whereas i just can’t seem to get into that mindset, it seems completely foreign to me, which causes her to somewhat unintentionally belittle me, which only makes it worse…
I really can’t explain how much I am just hating everything right now…
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Yeah I am sure, man.
It’s more the study load than the subjects.
Both subjects are marketing units – one is consumer behaviour, which is great, it’s really interesting.
The other is Marketing Research… which i really, really don’t like. Oh man how i hate it. I just don’t like research, period. It’s just so dull and the subject matter is presented in a completely unappealing way… le-sigh.Edit: then again maybe i should just become a florist… that could be nice…
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It’s all good, buddy. Thanks for caring.
It’s not super-dire – I’ve just always found stuff like this hard to handle.
Thing is that i only have to put up with it for a couple more years and then i’ll never have to worry about it again 🙂
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Hell no.
I’ve already quit on school once in my life – and that was one time too many. Biggest mistake of my life.
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Is it too late to postpone the wedding? That might ease some of the pressure so you can concentrate on completing your studies.
Anyway…*hugasaurus*
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Very much too late – All deposits are made and almost everything is penned it.
Plus it would crush Bee – I wouldn’t do that to her 🙂-
I hope you’ll be able to stop stressing for at least your wedding day then.
Just deal with one day at a time. If things seem to really be getting on top of you it may seem counter-productive but giving yourself a day (hey, even an hour can work) off where you’re not allowed to think about all the things that need doing and can dedicate it to just being you can really help.
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I was thinking of taking the trimester of the weeding off, actually. I doubt i would get much of any study done anyway.
Thanks, Strange – you’re a gem 🙂
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You need a trimester to garden? 😛
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Well once she has the ring of binding on him, it’s not like they will be doing anything else together
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Hug it out bro *hug*
Luckily for you Good Guy Greenius did BOTH of those units (Buyer Behaviour (textbook was Consumer Behaviour) and Marketing Research Methods) last year so I might be able to help!
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Thanks heaps man – much appreciated 🙂
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Thinking I may cave and download the ME3 Citadel DLC today. I’m feeling up for a zany adventure.
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Give me tips on trying to take down Ornstein and Smough as a melee character and I may reconsider. 😛
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They’re toughest together, so constant retreat is the key. Ornstein is fast, Smough is slow. Separating them is what will win. Learn the room and circle around the outside. Hit Ornstein when he’s near you but Smough isn’t. Keep your shield up unless you need stamina recharging, and never stand still. Lightning spear is pretty good, because despite Ornstein’s slight resistance ot lightning, you don’t lower your shield.For giant Smough, kite him around a single pillar, and run in to hit him after he takes a swing. Best weapon is a fire weapon – Quelaag’s Furysword is excellent here. If he leaps into the air, roll back away from him twice as fast as you can, or you’re toast.
This battle is the moment in the game when the gloves come off. Other people have described it as the battle that separates the true players from the casual gamers 😛
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Bro I’m a hardcore gamer I can do this. *shoots self*
Glad to see I was right to go for Ornstein first, he seems less predictable than Smough. But I still haven’t made more than three hits on him. D: I am using the lightning spear, but I don’t have any fire weapons like Quelaag’s sword. I think my problem is just finding any openings at all. I’m constantly circling the room and strafing behind pillars but for whatever reason there isn’t a moment where they’re separated from each other long enough for me to get even one hit in. -
It just takes patience. They don’t get totally separated, and every hit is a risk, but your best bet is after Ornstein does a hall-length charge at you. Smough will probably be running to catch up, but should be enough time to hit and then find cover again.Or just use Pyromancy, they are so weak against it 😛
It took me upwards of twenty attempts to get them, but the feeling you get when you topple them is incredible. Keep at it!
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I’m downloading it too, coincidently. Last weeks rambling about Mass Effect 3 got me in the mood to play it again. 😀
You think you have problems. I’m breaking in a new pair of glasses, and my eyes are going mental.
@dc knew this would happen, so I’m assuming it’s all his doing. *shakes fist*
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I see what you did there.
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And I see what you did there 😛
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I thought you needed glasses?
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I will be your pupil, master.
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Damn it! That was going to be my next one.
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Eye don’t know what’s wrong with me.
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I didn’t get surprise happy time last night due to MIL visit, but I got giggles at the door. So, it’ll do for now 🙂
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@sughly
Given your posts last night:
http://io9.com/just-one-sip-of-beer-can-trigger-a-dopamine-surge-in-yo-473037919
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I can’t keep up with all the bands @Strange talks about.. there’s so many!
I usually see her mention one then get stuck on it for a few weeks before i notice her mentioning another… lol
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*sigh* You never pay attention to me. I’ve been raving about them for years. 😛
The guy that “sings” the guitar solos also has just started another band(with instruments).
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Its just so hard to keep up with you. You’re like a metal machine!
It’s like you’re what Fear Factory have been warning us about all these years…
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OH SWEET MERCIFUL MOTHER OF HHHHRRNNNNGGHHH!!!!
Mannnn that took a while!!!
So stocked you got it, though! 😀
Are you head over heels in love yet?-
It’s…. magnificent. Yeah it came from Poland by sea, so took a while. But arrived in mint condition, still shrink wrapped! Debating whether to paint the minis or not. One part of me says I should leave them as is, but another part wants to at least attempt a basic paint job on them.
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Maybe grab a couple of cheap generic terminators off ebay and see what kind of a job you can do – if you’re happy with it you’ll know it’s worth painting the other dudes?
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I think I can do a good enough job, I guess I just feel more pressured because these are the only miniatures I get. Can’t easily replace them. I think I’ll end up doing it, though.
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If you somehow botch something up you can just use detol to clear the paint and try again.
PAINNT THEEMMM
they deserve it!
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GoT S03E03 discussion! Not books. If you want to talk books then say so outside of your spoiler tag dickman!
I actually liked Daenerys last season, but something is off this season. I don’t like how she is interacting with people, especially in that last episode. She’s changed man.-
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She seems less human, I guess. Which is probably the point, but I really wasn’t a fan of her after the last episode. I find Jaime incredibly interesting, I like him more each episode, even though I feel like I shouldn’t. That last scene was all :O and then that terrible song started. I feel like silence in the credits would have worked better, just leaving the audience to contemplate the shit that just went down. -
yeah, what was with that song in the credits, was incredibly out of place
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I liked it. It felt like someone dancing on a grave after a funeral or something – like something tragic just happened, CUE CRAZY MUSIC. Just made it a little more poignant.
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I haven’t read the books so don’t worry about me spoiling it. Everyone else – NO BOOK SPOILERS HERE PLEASE. Or at least tag it as a book/show spoiler.
Show spoilers S03E03:
She’s definitely changed. I don’t really like her either way, unfortunately. She just seems like a naive little girl, and it doesn’t appear to be changing too much as the show progresses – not for the better, anyway. Swapping a dragon for 8,000 troops? What the fuck, man. Unless she’s got something up her sleeve, which I’m guessing she does. I can’t see her giving away any of her dragons for anything. She’s not impressing me at all really, I’d expect her to start becoming more and more assertive or formidable, but she continually feels like just a silly little girl.Rob Stark, for example – he basically went from a young man to a king almost overnight with the death of his father, and it was entirely believable. Grown up king-commander-serious Rob is fucking brilliant, he pulls it off perfectly.Jaime getting his hand lopped off is a brilliant twist, I thought. It’s going to change the character permanently. Jaime’s effectively the Ken doll of Westeros – now he’s not only a cripple, but useless as a warrior. If anything’s going to bring him down to earth it’ll be that. It’s a little sad it’s going to happen that way though, he was actually showing more humanity the longer he spent in captivity and away from his family. I also wonder just how interested Cersei’s going to be in him when he gets back. He’s changed for good on the personality front, I think, and now he’s damaged. Like a ruined painting. I don’t think Cersei will be remotely into him anymore. -
Book spoiler
They are papery
I was hoping it was in that blue outfit she’s been wearing lately. That wrap jacket/top/dress thingy is awesome and I need to make one for myself.
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Well then, Gizmodo’s article is for you!
Oh page 6
Two weevils finished school and one went to Uni and became a doctor. The other stayed behind on the dole and never amounted to much. The second one became known as the lesser of two weevils.
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Did you seriously just go and mod your website for this terrible pun?
That shows commitment, and I take off my hat to you.
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No point doing these things half-assed. If you’re committed to a joke, this is the least you would do 😛
I’m editing further now to increase the rodent puns. Wish I’d had more prep time for this 😛
Edit: Watch out for the sequel, Cheeseful Tomorrows.
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I would’ve made a point to read Lesser Weevil on day one! 😛
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Err…isn’t a Weevil a bug, not a rodent? 😛
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Oh yeah, I was thinking weasel.
But I don’t care at this point 😛
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Mad Men
Eh, still not feeling the new season, it doesn’t seem to have the magic that season 5 had. @DC @Sughly either of you getting this vibe?
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It was better than the first two. But now the show seems it’s less & less focusing on the advertising and it’s losing it’s charm of what it was originally. Though less Betty and more Allison Brie always makes for a good episode.
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SPAGHETT’S LAST PLAYED SONG GAME:
Went to sleep listening to High Violet, woke up listening to High Violet:
Is anyone getting Dead Island Riptide? I can’t wait to unleash my beast build Sam B on another zombie horde.
Who Do You Voodoo Bitch
Edit: First Pageget, I’ll have to celebrate with ……. ummmm. Coffee
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I’ve already preordered it on PC. Had a lot of fun with the first one – it had some issues, plenty to hate but I couldn’t stop having fun with it. Please, oh please, powers that be, promise you’ll fix the voice acting in Riptide. Dead Island had some of the single worst voice acting I’ve heard in a video game.
I went the aboriginal lady in the first one because she specialised in firearms. I then realised about 1/2-2/3 through the game that guns were not only useless, but far too scarce to be useful, and ended up with melee weapons.
Will probably roll voodoo man this time around, I think. That or the latino guy with the tattoos.
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yeah, did have a lot of issues but i had too much fun to care, also voice acting in riptide is as bad if not worse from early reports, Guns are useless, can’t believe they made a class specialise in firearms, i played through twice with Sam B and once with the Blade specialist, both were excellent, but loved Sam B, he fits my playstyle perfectly, i.e. run headfirst into Zombies swinging large bludgeoning weapons, send zombies flying in all directions, run away and health regen. I played a lot of it co op too which made it so much fun, can’t wait 😀
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Yeah I co-opped the hell out of it with a friend. Was great. Disappointed guns were so useless though. By the time I realised, my character was too far along for me to abandon it. Maybe they’ll fix it for Riptide. I hope so.
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at the same time though the game was always melee focused, would be a shame if they added too many guns, it’d just become another FPS, the melee aspect was what made it unique i thought, i liked guns being scarce, helped the whole survival horror feel. Plus bludgeoing & stomping zombies is particularly satisfying.
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Yeah it’d be hard to implement guns and keep it balanced, but I’d like for them to find a way. Even with guns I’d find myself opting for a bludgeon and stomp just to save ammo. Stomping was always preferable regardless of your weapon of choice because it saved wear and tear on the weapon as well.
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and that hand of Glova man, that was a life saver, cornered by a thug? send him flying with a facepalm, whoo. Remember before they patched it you could knock a thug down, break a limb and keep hitting the broken limb for xp every hit, you’d get thousands of xp for punching a dude on the floor, best exploit. then they patched and you only got xp for the initial break :(.
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Guns were great when dealing with non-zombies, but that was a fairly limited group.
Voodoo guy was incredibly overpowered. Health regen, massive chance to stun/break, massive damage…he was an absolute tank.
I made the same mistake playing the aboriginal lady. I couldn’t be bothered rerolling though, so I just kept playing as her. I should have gone for the asian woman since I found myself using blade weapons quit a bit.
I’m going to pick it up, but I have no idea when. The first game was a good bit of fun, and I hope Riptide has the annoyances of the first game removed.
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i hope they do fix bugs, my main one was if i ever drove a car with a passenger i would freeze, was really frustrating. Item duplication was fun though. What platform are u getting it on?
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Reposting because @dc put it right at the end of the last page
@spaghett’s Last Song Played game!
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Oh shit, he actually passed away? I hadn’t heard anything! I’ve been following his progress since the accident too, even donated to one love for Chi. Been a bit slack lately and I hadn’t heard. Fuck.
/sadface
Worth noting Deftones are pretty much my favorite band of all time and have been since I was 16 and picked up Around the Fur. I was in year 11 – late ’97.
I honestly never had much genuine hope he’d recover, but damn. Now I’m sad.
R.I.P. Chi Cheng.
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yeah, been hoping too, such a shame, sounded like a great guy too. The one positive thing to take from it is that it’s brought the band closer than ever, they were considering breaking up but once he had his accident they all put their differences aside and focused on the music.
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I hope it doesn’t sound selfish, but I wonder if we’ll ever see Eros. They always said they were going to hold off until Chi got better.
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yeah i know, i hope it turns into a tribute or something. I was thinking the same thing.
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Dear Shane (If that is your real name)
I am writing to express my strident opposition to your recent comments on page six. It is so called “writers” making “jokes” like this that is leading this country astray. There is a direct causal link between terrible weevil jokes and juvenile delinquency.
You should be ashamed of yourself. I will be getting in touch with my local member to escalate this matter further.
Yours Sincerely
Francis McWhinge (age 67)
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Dear @shane,
Page 6 is over, puns are out, this is just embarrassing.
As a result, I’m going to call you Shame W. Smith.
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Record Store Day this weekend! I’m excited! Vinyl re-release of The Cure’s Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is the very top of my list, though I’m anticipating likely disappointment.
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If only vinyl wasn’t so expensive.. Was lookin’ at the Maiden England ’88 vinyl release yesterday 70 bucks at JB for it =/
Sure it was a picture disk but daaaaaaamn. That was twice as much as any of the other vinyl in the store.
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I have no idea how much this one is going to cost. I’m expecting a lot, since it’s only for RSD and only like 3000 or something worldwide. There’s some other really cool stuff too, so I won’t be too disappointed. Just a little.
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Yeah, not many being reissued this year I have any interest in.
Actually there’s really nothing haha; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_Store_Day#Record_Store_Day_2013
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There’s a lot missing on that list. The ones we’re getting here are up on the official website.
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@dc must be upset, last year Arcade Fire released an album on vinyl for Record Store Day haha.
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Vinyl, eh. Stop living in the past Arcade Fire! 😛
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Yeah man, but 70 buuuuuuucks, way too much for a 18 track LP. Though I swear it only said 10 tracks when I looked at it in JB..
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Spec Ops : The Line was fucking amazing.
This song and it’s placement in the game were amazing. That whole section in the aquarium with this song blaring was insane. Was one of the first times it really hit me what the fuck was going on and what I was becoming. The song somehow simultaneously highlights the craziness of the situation, and the despair, all at the same time.
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I can’t get past the fact that the ‘video’ is just a single image but they are telling people to increase the quality
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But higher quality would also improve the audio, wouldn’t it? I know it only references the resolution, but I think audio compression is a factor too.
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Hmmmm I hadn’t considered that, you could be right
I can’t tell the difference between sound quality at that level but other here could-
There’s a massive difference between pootube’s 360p and 720p audio quality. You’re talking something like 64kbps vs 128+. Anything below 128 there’s very audible sound degradation.
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YES!!!Man, i loved it so much! I actually made a comment about it when i was playing the game – it really reminded me of the music in Zombie movies when things start going to shit… well more so than they already had.
So. Damn. Epic.
I seriously loved that game so so much.
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I feel like I need to hand in my adventure fan credentials, but the name Ron Gilbert to me doesn’t conjure the same level of excitement as Tim Schafer. I’m sure the game would be excellent, but I dunno… Before he left Double Fine he hinted that he wanted to try to make one a while back though…
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I wouldn’t be too concerned, Tim Schafer gets everyone excited. Ron Gilbert feels a little irrelevant now. Irrelevant isn’t the word I wanted to use, but it’s the best I’ve got.
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The Cave was really fun, though. 😀
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To be honest, I wouldn’t be all that sad if there was never another Monkey Island game. Five is enough!
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I honestly pretend the Tales games dont exist, I guess the same way people pretend 3 doesnt. Those people are very very wrong though, obviously.
Actually I kind of ignore 4 completely too. Played it once and never looked back.
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I actually thought the Tales games were pretty great. Telltale nailed it, far as I’m concerned – just as they nailed the Sam and Max games. Doesn’t replace or replicate the classics, but I thought they did an amazing job of nailing the style and humor of both series.
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I’ll probably never know, because I just cant get past the clunkiness and ugliness of it. So off putting. Even just the first part of episode 1, going from the scene on the boat to the convo on the beach. So clunky and ugly.
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Weird, I never had any problem with it. I played the whole series through with my housemate who’s an old school Lucasarts adventure game fan as well, and we had a blast.
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Telltale need to use their Walking Dead profits ot make the Telltale tool better, IMO. Even to this day it feels clunky. I know they’re going for quick, episodic turn around but it’d be nice if it was pretty too. XD
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“Buzz Buzz Woody Buzz Buzz Cake Buzz BuzzCake Buzz Woody Buzz Jessie Buzz” _ Conversation this weekend
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Hmm, so if I catch Smough’s hammer, I get to call in another player, and then we can beat up the nerdy kid and laugh in slow motion.
Thanks!
After vague talk yesterday about different Game of Thrones torrents, should I restart the download?
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Someone said something about some song or something. SOMETHING. I don’t know. Hard to follow the conversation without looking at spoilers. Haha.
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Apparently there was some weird rock/metal song dubbed over the closing credits that was completely out of place and wasn’t in the original TV run. No one really seems to know why.
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From what @sughly is saying it only affects the credits. Someone just took some artistic license with the ending theme before uploading. I personally just haven’t downloaded anything yet so may as well get te fixed version.
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Oh cool! HD version just finished downloading, so if that’s all it is, I might just watch that one. Thanks man!
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Will watch tonight. I’ll let you know! 😀
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I’ll watch it tonight anyway 😀
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I’m not sure it makes a great deal of difference. From what I’ve heard it’s just the credit song starts a fraction too early in one. I had the “Proper” version and it was still jarring.
Been trying to download the Citadel DLC for Mass Effect 3 all morning and 360 keeps on dropping out of LIVE. Every time it does, the prospect of always online annoys me more and more. 😀
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Good answer to me, If I actually end up wanting the next console gen (Which currently is a “no”), I’ll choose the PS4. My PS3 has been pretty solid… unless I’m playing AC2 or AC:B and I get intermittent freezing. I just haven’t really found the motivation to look into getting a PS4, same problem I got with current gen handhelds (3DS and Vita)
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PC, Master race, etc.
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What happened to the last guy and his dream of a master race? I forget
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People are still talking about him, so he basically achieve immortality
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He got into a giant mech suit and attempted to kill B.J. Blazkowicz but failed.
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Hur hur.
‘BJ’
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Off topic spoiler warnings
Probably not a big deal for those up to date but people are talking game of thrones plot points in the off topic article Better than the book.
So if you are behind like me and not wanting to know anything maybe avoid the comments. Besides all you really need to know is M*A*S*H
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Oh man. I was looking forward to reading that article but then you had to go ahead and spoil it for me. 🙁
Ron Gilbert’s kind of a surly jerk. That is all. 😀
(A surly jerk who made the first adventure game I ever played, but a surly jerk all the same. :P)
That coworker with a runny nose, who instead of just blowing it insists on sitting there and sniffing every 30 seconds.
There’s going to be blood, and it won’t be mine.
@dc – trailer for National doco. Been keeping an eye on this for quite some time, but this is the first footage out for it. Looks reaaaaally good! http://pitchfork.com/news/50331-watch-the-trailer-for-the-national-documentary-mistaken-for-strangers-check-out-the-films-poster/
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Oh man, that looks amazing. Cool ‘story’ going on there too. (Really need to see Arcade Fire’s Miroir Noir too.) Thanks for the heads up! 😀
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No problemo! Yeah Mirror Noir is really great, should just borrow my copy! Or, you know, seven seas dealio.
But yeah, National aside, looks like a really interesting story indeed. Will be really interesting to see that duality of a rockstar lifestyle and reception in stark contrast to a kind of everyday man.
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Ohhh thats the one with the kids isnt it, that Spike Jonze did? Yeah tis a’ight. Mirror Noir is far more interesting.
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Ooooo, Polica put up the new song with Justin Vernon they did at Coachella. Very very rad song. A band well worth having a little listen to to see what you think. Wont be everyones cup of tea but whatevs https://soundcloud.com/polica/tiff
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I watched ’em yesterday on the Coachella feed after you gave the heads up. Not really my thing, but can see the quality there. (D.C. needs more instruments and angst. :P)
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I’m trying to share the love :'(
Blah I seriously give up discussing musics. I get that the hipster thing is funny to you guys, but it kind of sucks when its something I’m genuinely trying to share my interests and get it thrown back in my face every time. I kind of find it a bit ignorant to take the hipster approach too, its easy to not bother making the effort to research smaller interesting bands coming out and label other people that do. Sorry for my small rant, just… kind of sick of it. Blergh.
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🙁 Haha, no, keep talking about music man. Not everyone’s gonna like everything, but it’s cool how you’re an enthusiast who does seem to like every thing. Even if the occassional recommendation ‘sticks’ that’s good enough! 😀
Edit: I remember at Uni when I passionately talked to two journalism students about TV being in a golden age, they then proceeded to make fun of it without any facts. Made me sad. I can understand where you’re coming from.
Don’t think any one means any harm here, though.
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Pretty much this. Its ok, im over trying.
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Settle down dude. Just poking some fun at you. Honestly I do check out every link you post. I even enjoy a lot of it. If you want me to stop I will. None of it is malicious though.
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I also sample most of the stuff you recommend and when I say it’s not really my thing, it’s not a criticism of the music — just a taste thing. 🙂
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I know. Im not trying to make everyone interested, just seeing who is. Its basically like being with friends and asking if they like so and so games, and being told youre a nerd. Its fine though, honestly.
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If its bothering you it’s not fine. At least from my side of it.
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Dude, don’t stop posting!!! You weren’t on TAY regularly a while back and now you are which is good.
Keep posting about music and movies. A lot of discussions has come about.🙂
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You’re awesome, man. One of the most liked people here, I think. A damn good friend too. Though I don’t think any one’s meant to make you feel bad, I definitely understand what you mean. Sorry if I contributed in any way.
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Please don’t stop talking about the music and things you love. I vastly prefer your positive posts about music than Virus’ countless negative stories about music. I love that you’re not self-conscious about what you love and don’t care if anyone else thinks it’s “cool” to like it or not.
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I kind of knew that wasn’t going to be my thing before I clicked it. It’s okay, I’m not against it. Justin Vernon just really doesn’t do it for me.
Wanting to buy Zero Dark Thirty on BD. It came out on March 9 in the states but isn’t coming out here till July? Wut? It’s a BD release, I don’t get it.
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I think it was in Australian cinemas a lot after the US. (Was still running in mid February here. *flashbacks to certain man date* Haha!) That might mess with the distrubution.
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Ahhh, OK, that might explain it. I missed it at the cinemas and thought a 4 month difference in release dates for BD was a little odd.
Thanks!
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Really Lifehacker?
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/04/use-uncooked-spaghetti-as-an-emegency-toothpick-replacement/
Should I also store it in the microwave?
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And pretend you’re laughing at it
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article there yesterday about storing cling wrap in the freezer. seriously? who comes up with this shit?
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Actually, my Grandmother used to swear by that.
First time we saw her do that we thought she was going senile!
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@ anyone who might be able to answer (mainly sydney folk I suppose) :
since Allans / Billy Hyde shut down, theres not really many places to get a decent range of music gear.
theres one place I know of, Icon music, but their stock is heavilyweighted toward Ibanez stuff. like, 350 Ibanez products & 20 of all other brands.
question is, can anyone think of any other stores that’d stock a wider range?
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There’s Dickson’s Music, although it has been many years since I’ve been there.
Also Mall Music near me. Been a while since I’ve been there too.Edit: Took a look at Dickson’s website. Looks like their range is far more limited than it used to be, particularly guitar wise (maybe that’s just online, maybe not).
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thanks man. I was so habitual about going to Allans in Pitt St, I had no real idea of anywhere else when they closed.
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Since I made a last minute decision to go to Pez’s Launch Party and my house will already be filling up with family for my sister’s wedding the weekend after, is anyone doing anything accommodation wise? Or would someone be kind enough to offer a square metre of floor space on Saturday night? I promise I’m house trained.
Found this while looking for stuff about the Boston Marathon:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/12/kawah_ijen_by_night.html
Sulphur Mines by night
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Serious? Why the fuck is a news site putting up photos right in your face of blood soaked and maimed people crawling around the road? Why not help someone instead of sitting there photographing them you soulless monsters.
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I have no idea what your talking about.
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I’m going to assume your device auto-corrected ‘you’re’ to ‘your’ 😛
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Nope. That one’s all on me.
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And their editorials too. CNN is reporting that everyone should be calm and News.com.au has “No American Should Feel Safe” — I think News.com.au are just a bunch of bastards. :S
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So you’re saying the Murdoch press is a bunch of assholes?
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I didn’t fail my assignment! But I did get 52% which is still rather terrible and I still don’t know anything since I just copied sort of relevant looking bits from lecture notes and pasted them in…
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Woooo! Haha! Odd thing to say, I know, but considering you thought you were going to fail, this is good news. Way to go!
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Mark obviously can’t decide how many of the prizes he wants to give me. @markserrels, one will be just fine.
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He’s probably waiting for the police to get back t him after one of mine said that i killed a hooker…. again…
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Hah, I’d forgotten about that. I think I entered, but I also feel like if if my entry wasn’t shit I shouldn’t win since I scored prizes from the GI Joe comp.
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@dc, this video was made for you. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/ginx/6400-Dark-Souls-Top-5-Places-to-Visit-in-Lordran
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I made it to the Sen’s fortress bonfire recently. Got the key and now I just need to work out how to kill the boss
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Argh, come to Uni to do some studying before class and the wifi is barely working. I need internet!
OTOH, a good morning/early afternoon was had adventuring around Hobart and suburbs. Lectures should get cancelled more often 🙂
From Software are running a competition for people to design a shield and have it appear in Dark Souls 2.
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Dude, you’ve created a whole bunch of graphic novels. Pretty sure you have the skills….
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Nah, design isn’t my thing. I use 3D models that others designed, and I paid for. Entirely different skill set 😛
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I thought hand-sewing wasn’t my thing. Very different skillset to machine sewing. And I thought I’d hate it. Turns out it’s very much my thing. I go to sleep thinking about handsewing and wake up in the morning thinking about it.
My point is: try it. You never know what you can do until you try. It just takes the right inspiration, for instance designing a shield that could be in a game you love.
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I will think about it. Thanks!
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I spent so long reading the Wikis that I was bound to come across something you didn’t know, eventually \o/
I feel like a kid who’s just beaten his dad for the first time in one-on-one sportsball 😛
@shane: Watched the first minute and closed because I didn’t want spoilers, I’m not sure if that means I want to attempt Dark Souls again one day but closed the window all the same. Haha.
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This might sound like I’m missing the point, but I liked exploring the world so much that if there was a mod to take away the enemies I’d probably spend hours just looking around. XD
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You can enjoy the glorious views of Anor Londo even while Silver Knights are firing the most horrific of arrows down upon you.
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Enjoy that part?
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I enjoyed the manic dash up there, but I didn’t enjoy trying to get past one of the archers.
But then, if I’d known how easy it was to parry Silver Knights at the time, I probably could have made it through a lot quicker.
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Nah man, I think the point of Dark Souls is that you find your own point. Some people love the challenge, some love the fluid gameplay, some love the scenery and visuals, some love the pre-fight strategising, some love rooting around for narrative clues and pieceing together lore, and some love grinding for loot. I love it all.
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I like exploring at my own pace, though. Not watching other people explore. XD I’d be all, “Look up at the thing.”, “Stop, turn right. What’s that? Go closer.”, “WAIT, stop walking, look at that!” 😀
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I volunteer to play it for you and look everywhere you tell me to….
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In Uncharted I spend an hour in a location other people spend 15 minutes in. 😀
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But then you blazed through Dishonored!
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I played for about 20 hours, that’s not blazing through a game like that. Haha!
I think I just worked out the issue I have with Lifehacker:
almost every article they run has headlines like ‘Do this…’ or ‘Use these…’ or ‘Say that…’ like its not an option.
I DON’T CARE HOW HELPFUL YOUR SUGGESTIONS ARE, YOU’RE NOT MY DAD, LIFEHACKER.
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Can you imagine walking into a house where the occupants have taken every piece of advice from Lifehacker?
Try to attempt to find anything.
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Knives are below the laundry sink, forks in the exhaust pipe of your car and the spoons in a PO Box where the postcode is your DOB.
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Why use up valuable cupboard space when you can store your pots and pans in the empty space under your lounge?
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Empty milk bottles cut in half and nailed to every vertical surface filled with pens and rubber bands.
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I did a thing, on the Potaku, about Dragon Age
http://potaku.com/2013/04/16/what-i-want-to-see-from-dragon-age/
Possibly unrelated: I now want to replay Dragon Age.
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On your point about wanting to equip companions, you’ll be glad to hear that’s returning for DA3. They’re also implementing a feature where the armour changes based on the companion who wears it so each companion has their own unique look.
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Read it, then remembered that I’ve given away no fewer than 4 DA games to TAY in the past, with one more to come in the future. Every time I think I’m out, they pull me back in… and I regret it 😛
I can appreciate their quality, and enjoyed them once, but there’s no coming back from a Souls game. Ever.
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What that list of suggestions reads like is “make it more like The Witcher”.
Which I find a compelling argument.
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Lunchtaku… the resurrection!
Praise the tongue!
I had two salads for lunch today. One was full of caesar sauce, parmesan cheese and bacon, and the other is entirely creamy potato, eggs and bacon.
Doing healthy food the right way.
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I thought you were going to say you had tongue for lunch.
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For my part, I would say that it’s more monstrous to allow an animal to be butchered and then not use as much of it as possible for food.
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Furthering the conversation above with @freezespreston @dc and @shane, I’d advise people stay away from Reddit.
There are extremely graphic pictures all over it at the moment.
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I jumped on 4chon this morning, before I had heard the news.
I found out pretty quickly.
I’ve seen some stuff, man.
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Yeah, I don’t eat enough bread to make it through a loaf before it goes stale. I put it straight into the freezer.
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I do the same thing. Don’t eat a lot of bread, so would end up throwing out heaps if I didn’t store it in the freezer.
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I prefer fresh bread, but I’d rather not have to go shopping for it every other day.
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‘sup Shane!
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Toast is the ultimate survival food. Nothing to eat in the house? I fucking guarantee that toast is available.
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Not in my house as there is no bread.
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That means you’re abnormal.
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If having bacon & eggs for breakfast every morning instead of toast makes me abnormal I wouldn’t want to be normal again.
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Pretty sure bacon, eggs & TOAST would improve that scenario even further,
Just sayin’.
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@ynefel: no, what improves it further is mushrooms done with some butter, thyme and rosemary.
Toast is just… there. Adding nothing and making me feel fat and bloated. 🙁 I like bread a lot but it doesn’t like me much.
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Well I freeze mine, so it lasts forever.
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In a family of four that eats a lot of sandwiches, fuck going to the shop every day to get a new loaf. Buy in bulk and freeze for when its needed.
Yup. Once you freeze it the only thing that bread is good for is toast/ed sandwiches.
Freezer is a million times better than storing it in the fridge though.
I think fresh bread > thawed frozen bread, but there’s obviously going to be times you want to freeze it, as the others have given examples of.
Apparently there’s an update live for MH3U WiiU? Something about playing on the gamepad as main screen and NA/EU cross region multi being enabled.
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No offence, but I’ll believe that when I see it on my Wii U.
EDIT: My strikethrough vanished…it alluded to you containing a large amount of excrement regarding this statement.
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It was slated for the 16th. Not sure whether that’s Strayan 16th or Murrica 16th or somewhere in between if it’s Eruo 16th.
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I think I saw a tweet/post on GameFAQs saying that it was up. I’m gonna play it soon so I’ll post back resultz
EDIT: Yep, updating now. I’m pretty sure it’s for those features.
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I love you.
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This is….. I just……..
farted.
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Haven’t used that site, but I did get my Galaxy Note 2 from MobiCity which appears to be one of their other sites. MobiCity was fine, if that helps.
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I still say a retail shop is always the better choice though. Only reason I used MobiCity was because the GN2 wasn’t out here when I wanted it.
Least with a shop you can see what you’e buying, and also for return/repair purposes it’s often better.
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Yeah. Also, given I’m off in 15 days I want to make sure it’s in working order before I go
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Here’s a blast from the past. The Million Deaths of the Soul Knight #8: Entombed!
Man, that feels like today. I can even hear the sirens coming for me.
#SoulsGamesPage8
#YesThat’sTheTheme
The Amazing Race – “Update as I watch” thingy
Hahaha Max doing the rude finger thing when the others missed the train
Aw man, the dogs got to kiss the hot girls? :(. Am I the only one who finds that whole dog kissy/licky thing your own mouth gross as? :/ who knows where their mouth has been!
Ugh Wynona…
so…. new prince of persia rumor / leaked screens?
not made by an ubisoft studio, but by Climax studios. which raises the question…. who the hell are climax studios?
Silent Hill : Shattered memories, Overlord expansion… not a heap of great stuff on their CV that makes me hype…
anyway…. cc: @masha2932
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To be fair, sometimes awesome games come out of studios that produced shit up until that point. Look at Rocksteady Studios for example. Urban Chaos was an utter turd, but they followed that game up with Arkham Asylum.
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very true. I’m gonna hope for the best, of course, but yeah…..
hopefully we get another Rocksteady-esque success story.
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Why is he wearing a polyester tank top?
Also I wonder if this is a follow-up to the 2008 PoP game that everyone but me hated at the time but when you talk about it now everyone says they liked heaps? Or is it a new franchise.
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hey! I loved PoP’08 from the second I got it on launch day!
Edit: also, for a sequel to the 2008 game, I think they’d wanna keep the art style. I mean, it was a very distinctive aesthetic & I sorta associate that style with that story, so I’d hope if PoP’08 gets a sequel at some point, its still looking the same.
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I loved the art style from the moment I saw it. Unfortunately didn’t get the game until 2011. :'(
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So everyone with good taste liked the game. I remember it being raked over the coals everywhere because it was ‘too easy’ and ‘not like a proper PoP game’ and ‘Nolan North’ and a bunch of other bullshit. I think maybe the game was too progressive.
Either way, it tanked at retail and as a result we’ve had multiple Assassin’s Creed games instead. Originally it was going to be that they were going to alternate between AC and PoP each year. 😐
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Shattered Memories was pretty good. Was my first Silent Hill game since the PS1. I remember reading that one of the initial pitches for Prince of Persia was a modern day protagonist in a weird setting. This looks the part!
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A sort of stranger-in-a-strange-land take on the game? Where he turns out to be The One that the prophecies said would save the world from $threatName? i.e. the All Story?
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I really like a treatment I read about for a possible future PoP game:
you don’t play as the prince, but as his bodyguard as the city comes under attack. Your character is tasked with getting him out of the city to somewhere safe.
What was cool about the idea was that the prince (like 16 years old or something), would learn from your actions & help out. like instead of leveling up your character, you train the Prince in abilities like wall running, opening locked doors etc., so you unlock more areas & progress in the story.
As for combat, the Prince would start off hiding while you fight off enemies & gradually learn combat techniques from what you used & start helping you out.thats something I’d like to see actually get made.
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I already took care of that (see above) 😛
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fixed.
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Seeing as nobody will take my other Epica ticket, I’ll be having dinner (and drinks afterwards) alone in West End tomorrow night. Unless anybody wants to join me for dinner. I have a place in mind but I won’t share exactly where unless I know for sure I won’t be alone there.
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Aw, man. I want to say yes, but I know I’m not in the most social of moods this week and would be too scared hanging out with you alone. All the awkward silences. D:
Three Monkeys is good for food, though. Don’t think they serve alcohol there though. :'(
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@strange @dc do you agree that whatever silences occur are not awkward, they are regenerative? If yes, problem solved. Enjoy your date.
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Oh man,don’t call it a date,I’ll never be able to get him to go anywhere with me ever again. 😛
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We did fine one our own before we met up with Sughly the other night. No awkward silences. We’re friends and we like lots of the same stuff so we’ll never run out of things to talk about. If there did happen to be an awkward silence, I’d break it by talking about how awkward the silence was. 😛
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Just because you’re friends with someone, and share a lot in common doesn’t mean you won’t have awkward silences. When Rocket and I meet face to face we usually only say about 3 sentences before it gets awkward…
So really, what I’m saying is that @dc should be worried.
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Thanks for the pep talk, Blaghs! 😛
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No problemmo, Buddy. Just remember that if you’re finding a silence too awkward, hyperventilating into a bag is a good ice breaker.
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Yeah but that’s you and Rockets….
😛
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#SoulsGamesPage8?
Let’s get #OrnsteinAndSmoughAreJERKS trending. (because that’s how TAY works right?)
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#OrnsteinAndSmoughFeelLikeJerksToBeginWithButReallyAreWeedingOutTheChaffPlayersAndAreActuallyKindOfAwesome
Trend that.
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Gather round TAYbies, it’s time for another one of Tofu’s tales from the helpdesk.
For the past few days I’ve been running on about an hour or two of sleep per night and my usual chipper demeanour is about as thin as is humanly possible … good start already, isn’t it. As most of you know from the last few of my tales, I run a help desk dealing with medical recruitment … on a good day, things are pretty awesome. But by all that is unholy, when the idiots come out to play they send out their big guns.
I just got off the phone with a human resources person who starts off by with “Things broke … fix it” I politely ask for more information, she replies “It’s still broke, I thought I told you to fix it” I politely ask for more information again and she somehow grumbles out what’s wrong … I manage to fix the issue fairly quickly and think I’m in the clear. Can’t have that, too easy says some cosmic entity. She calls back and I spend the next 20 minutes having to walk her through one of the easiest things to do on the system. Every step pushes me further and further towards psychopath territory … by some miracle I manage to get her finished and hang up. I question how people like that can get work in hospitals and my manager states “At least she’s not a doctor” … You are correct, she was not a doctor, but she is the head of recruitment … she is a small child playing duck, duck, go stab this person and I am still terrified. I think I should just crawl under the desk at this point.
Aw man, why do they always stumble across the most intolerant people. D:
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Please, as if I’m going to let a tea drinking pom lecture me about racism. GO BACK TO SCONE LAND
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See, that’s why Australia is so racist. We’ve decided to be larrikins about it, and make it all funny to rag on other people 😛
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Between the government, the media and the random idiots you meet on the street, it’s easy to believe tolerant Australians are actually in the minority.
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Honestly it’s rather hilarious coming from someone who’s country is full of more racists twits than ours.. Well that’s what Kat has me believe. They’re all ignorant racist arseholes over there who want to keep the rich, rich and the poor, poor.
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Uh, I didn’t specify any singular race or any race at all, so is it racist if everyone is included? I’d say it’s just me being a general prick.
I wish I could remember who said a bit on racism and how if you find something racist you’re most likely a racist yourself.. I feel like I heard it on QI of all places.
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To be clear, I’m not calling you a racist. But in this instance, the way you’ve worded your comment sounds a little racist. “They’re all ignorant racist arseholes over there” is what I’m referring to in particular.
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Well that’s what I am lead to believe by my friend who lives there, since that’s it seems the media likes to focus on etc..
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Dude…you need to broaden your variety of friends. Seems like a lot of them haven’t experienced much outside their own little circles so there are a lot of misconceptions amongst them.
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Your friend wants you to believe “They’re all ignorant racist arseholes over there who want to keep the rich, rich and the poor, poor” and you don’t think there’s something wrong with that?
I’m not trying to insult you or your friends. And I know I’m wording all this wrong. I just feel like this on top of all your posts complaining about your facebook friends and music friends and their opinions is a bit scary.
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Well, I asked her is what I see in the media print & tv and heard from others true about how intolerant to others the English actually are no matter who they are, she said sadly it is true and she really dislikes it. No there’s nothing wrong with the statement if it’s true, and that’s even true here to a point. There are people here, who wish to keep the poor in poor conditions and the rich VERY comfortable so they never feel threatened by those who are doing it tough.
Those people I have tried removing from my life but they keep popping back up into it, I tell them to go away I do not wish to know them but they’re like those punching clowns you hit and they keep coming back for me. I really have no idea how I came to know such oblivious to hatred people.
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hehehe I have the image of them being literally like punchy the clown
It’s an amusing image
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I think he’s right though. By and large Australians are pretty comfortably racist. I’m not going to sit on my high horse and say I’m not. I don’t think I’ve met a single person who isn’t comfortable with at least turning some level of racism into a joke or something.
Oh well, I’m just looking forward to see what eventuates from his visit on the show 😀
Another f’ing waste of a day. I’m gonna ask if I can work from home sometimes. I could’ve got 10 pages of my comic done in this time. Ridiculous.
Okay, after 2 weeks of no desktop PC I finally have it working.
The worst thing about this?
No Dark Souls for the last 2 weeks T_T
@strange
You’re making me feel bad. I’d love to go with you but i can’t due to work and family stuff. 🙁
Error is there for @shane.
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Don’t feel bad! I feel bad for you for not being able go to Epica. 🙁
To be clear, I’m perfectly fine having dinner alone as I rarely get to spend time truly alone, but I also rarely get to spend face-to face time with TAYbies, who are pretty much my favourite people. Which is why I thought it might be nice if anyone was free to join me for dinner. Alone is good, but so is is with friends. 🙂
Convincing people to watch Childrens Hospital 😀 I’ll have people to talk about its amazingness with!
OH FFS go away page gets!
HOLY CRAP, YOU GUYS!!
http://www.coolminiornot.com/316572
HOLY – FRIGGIN – CRAP!!!
AMAZE-BALLS!!!!
I wouldn’t even know where to begin on something that epic!
Online Monster Hunter complaints:
– Servers have merged and eww Americans!
– I was on for the last hour or so and spent 5 minutes actually hunting and the rest searching for rooms/waiting…
– Too many people want to do JUST Key Quests
– Too many people set their target to something (ie. “We’re hunting _____”) and then do something completely different
– It’s stupid how the room just closes when the room creator leaves. It should at least remain open and let someone else be the “leader”
– I just realised people have probably been speaking through a mic this whole time. When I play with the TAYbies I heard @rize try it out once and it was terribad so I just never play with it at all. I could hear those scary people D:
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– I was on for the last hour or so and spent 5 minutes actually hunting and the rest searching for rooms/waiting…
– Too many people want to do JUST Key Quests
– Too many people set their target to something (ie. “We’re hunting _____”) and then do something completely different
– It’s stupid how the room just closes when the room creator leaves. It should at least remain open and let someone else be the “leader”
^ these all apply to before the recent patch (maybe the mic thing too, never used it)
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You left out
– The game controls like your character is a blind OCD epileptic.
– It looks like ass
– Should never have been released on home console.It’s okay though. I forgive you.
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My favourite bit was the forty seconds it once took for me to get my character to actually face someone else.
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– Freeze controls the game like a blind OCD eplieptic
– Sometimes ass can be good but it’s not very HD 😛
– Sure it should’ve! But they should optimise it or update it – you do realise the series started on PS2?
– Camera sucks too-
Seriously though, a lock on camera that fraking works and actually locks on would solve 95% of the games problems.
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Yeah, they’re kinda maybe getting there 😛
But it really does matter where you hit a monster and having a lock on camera that focuses the camera will make it harder to hit certain parts consistently.
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unless it would let you lock on to separate parts 😛
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But dats EZ mode lol.noob.u.will.never.have.good.armour
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BRO DO YOU EVEN G-RANK I DONT THINK SO 420 NO-LOCK-ON
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Click right stick in to target, flick to change targets.
Fight the monster not the god awful camera.
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Don’t you get it. The camera IS the monster.
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Don’t forget it’s just a port of Monster Hunter 3, which was designed for PSP where camera controls involved using The Claw.
1. Time Zone Difference! Could get different people at different times of day.
2. Ugh.
3. Ugh.
4. Heh.
5. I didn’t think Tri worked this way – it was just a set room that people joined.
6. Still beats trying to navigate an on-screen keyboard just to type something out. Although I see TeamSpeak being just as useful anyway. Is it on by default, can you toggle it on / off in the game, is the mic in the gamepad?
More importantly, off TV play… Report. How is it?
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1. Americans *shakes fist*
6. It’s pretty bad quality and the voice comes out of the gamepad’s speakers which also has the mic …so feedback echo mania 5000
Last point: Haven’t tried it yet because I don’t have the need
Fuck you and your not releasing more copies of Fire Emblem US ways, Nintendo.
Ordered a PAL 3DS from the UK along with UK Fire Emblem. Will arrive next week.
(Surprise twist ending: Amazon doesn’t get enough copies to fill preorders, I don’t get my copy…)
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Were you still wanting the hunting of monsters in a portable capacity?
(Just I could swear that I’ve seen it at shops but didn’t pay too much attention since I already have it – do you want me to keep an eye out?)
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Yes. I’ve got it ordered with Amazon UK but it’s backordered. JB and EB both say its sold out on their sites so you can’t check for stock in stores which is very frustrating. I might go for a hunt on the weekend.
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I’ve seen it going for crazy amounts on Ebay. 🙁
I’d pay EB’s price if they had stock. But there’s no point yet, I won’t get the system until probably late next week as it won’t ship until Fire Emblem.
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The Eb’s near me have a few empty boxes on the shelves with a note telling you to ask at the counter about digital downloads.
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This time it is dark souls related @strange
Iron Golem is down, the roll between the legs trick worked. Examined the ring thing and then got swooped on by harpy demon things and treated to the sight of andor londor (Think that was the name)
So pretty. Then I panicked and ran away because I had 3 levels worth of souls on me and no idea where I was and what I was in for. Upgraded now and heading back but LIVE just kicked me so figured I would post
*sighs* So here I am still at working, waiting 2 hours now for another team to get back to me so we can continue this change I’m helping with, and there’s still a lot left for me to do :'( I really hate my job sometimes…
Downloading Kingdoms of Amalur, because I loved it on my Xbox and want it on my PC 😀
Heroin
Still massively in love with Sam
Last song played Strayz by Billy Corgan
Shenanigans
Miss you TAY
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Tiff (feat. Justin Vernon) — POLIÇA
(Not really, but an awesome guy who knows music totally recommended it! :D)
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Correction: stressful fun! 😛
It’s like ‘oh dear god I am running for my life from crazy bat demon things this is hilarious I love it oh god that guy is a giant now he’s also after me and so are his three buddies i’ll just hide in this building oh wait nope more enemies in here HAHAHAHAHAHAHA *dead*’
I think Anor Londo is getting to me…
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My current character is standing up in the Dukes Archives looking down at Anor Londo wishing she could go back there.
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FIIIINALLY got to see it – my net went down yesterday, and just came back.
Yesss, Lexxy comin back in a big way! Gettin 2 votes in the challenge woo! Love that Katie is kicking butt now, she didnt deserve to be on the chopping block twice in a row. Also, Erica and Amy, totes in lurv. Amy, I think I have similar feelings on her as you do – she comes across a little in her own world. I think its funny that she started the series saying the only people that will have problems will be the girls, yet its only her that has problems with others. It seems.-
I wasn’t a fan of Amy’s reaction to Lexxy returning. Not really sure what she was trying to say, that she’s afraid of her? Or that she doesn’t think Lexxy should be there? I don’t get it. And now she wants to be “real”? Ugh. Least favourite by far. Katie is jut ridiculously good at everything, she destroyed the sculpting challenge. Not sure what a redraw ticket is, I assume it’s something big though, since the other prizes have been comic con booths and cintiqs. I find I feel more attached to Lexxy now, which is weird. Is it Kickstarter? I don’t know..-
Probs caus shes incredibly good looking. Nooo I dunno, I think I was on board the Lexxy train when she stood up to Dickman in the twitter challenge. I thought she was completely right. Just caus he has however many followers and is popular, doesnt make him right. Probs is also a bit of bias ever since you linked the kickstarter though and I recognised a lot of her stuff, kind of was like yay I kind of know someone in this show! Kind of!And yeah, screw Amy. I think she reaaaally didnt care for Lexxy’s return, but wasnt brave enoguh to just come out and say it. Caus she knew she was the only one that felt that way and didnt want to be the wrong one. -
Yeah, having Scott as the judge seemed a bit odd since he is pretty renowned for pissing people off on Twitter.The previews for the next episode make it look like Abby fucks up hard, so she might be going to elimination. I seriously can’t wait for Mike to meet her. She seems like she is probably the least talented one there. The rest of them all deserve to be there for sure.
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Yeah, Abby meets Mike will be amazing. To be fair, she is quite hilarious. But yeah, probably least talented.
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Good evening, nighTAY, how the frell are you.
I am pleased to reveal to you something you’ve all been waiting for.
Shane’s Third Annual Kindly Endowment of Surplus Terrific Unassuming Free Frivolity.
But it’s moved to Page 10.
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And still better organised then pinchme.com
Is star ocean good? I’ve always looked at picking it up but never got around to it. And is it related to phantasy star?
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I don’t know, sorry. I never played it, and I know nothing about it. Shamefully, most of the games in this list are unplayed by me.
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Oh well. Was just wondering.
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You want it? Postage won’t be that much.
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Sure if no one else wants it. I guess it’s the easiest way to find out if I like it
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Great battle system, average plot, creepy character designs (uncanny valley), dumbest protagonist in the history of JRPGs.
Overall it’s okay.
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EDGE MAVERICK is frustrating but the game is generally okay. Has a pretty awful dub though unfortunately – pretty much a hallmark of Tri-Ace’s games.
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Where do you find all this stuff to give away? Are you raiding the EB garbage bins? Unfortunately, anything I’m interested in, I don’t have the right console for (unless you wish to donate that too :P) But anyone who hasn’t played and has even the slightest interest in Kotor 2 should be taking Shane up on his generous offer RIGHT THE HELL NOW. Amazing game.
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Lots of pre-children frivolous spending, and some post-children bargain hunting. Some of these games were gifted to me, and I’m on-gifting (AC3 for e.g.).
Also, for the record, I accidentally bought two copies of KOTOR 2 and am keeping one.
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Good man. Now every time you harrass DC to play Dark Souls, I will be obliged to return fire with KOTOR 2
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Nope. I know enough about it to pretend that I’ve already played it. So it won’t work 😛
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Prove it 😛
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It should be self-evident from the confident way I express myself. I will not deign to respond further.
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And I said DONE.
And that’s final.
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I’m done with the series, dude. I’ve played them all and enjoyed (to varying degrees), but when I’m honest with myself, I’m never gonna play them again. Lineage edition comes with:
*cracks box*
* Envelope with lithographs
* Lineage DVD: A prequel to the video game Assassin’s Creed II
* Might or might not come with extra game maps…-
As someone who makes a habit of playing AC2 and ACB every six months, this saddens me.
And damn, I was hoping this Lineage edition came with the black Ezio figure. Because I don’t have enough Ezio figures. 😛
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Already got that one, I’m afraid!
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Atleast you tried with Monkey Island, also without the nostalgia and childhood memories I’m not sure what I’d make of playing those games for the first time in 2013 too. Don’t let it put you off other adventures though. So. Damn. Generous.
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I think it’s pretty clear by now that you just hate great games and love terrible ones.
*waits for colon pee*
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Nothing for me, but thanks for the offer.
Also, next adventure game you play should be Broken Age! 😀
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Don’t worry, man. I like the genre. I grew up with Fate of Atlantis (and Police Quest). Loved Fahrenheit and Heavy Rain and Walking Dead. Just really struggled with the open structure of Monkey Island, and found a number of the puzzles kind of frustrating
(like having to whack the bird with the loose floorboard three times. Never would’ve found that loose board in a million years, without the internet to guide me… and that kind of sucked the fun right out of it)-
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What console is it on? 😛
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Original Xbox. You can buy it on Live. 😀 Was released around the same time as Fahrenheit and plays pretty similarly. Sequel to The Longest Journey, but stands on its own awesome. (Dreamfall Chapters just got greenlit on Kickstarter too, so if you like it there’ll be more next year!)
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Can’t buy it through AU store…? I’ve forgotten the email address I used to fake my US account 😛
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Oh, you used to be able to, but doesn’t seem to be available any more. DAMN! :'( PC version has modest specs and is on sale often on GOG. 😛
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One of those secret shame games. Never finished it despite my love of the game.
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I love the three branching paths. Really felt like three different games \o/
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Got stuck in the desert using the cartography tools. Then got distracted and never got back to it. :'(
Mash 0 to win all the fights.
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Never heard of it.
Never finished it actually.
Dammit Shane, you’re the worst.
As it is, since you sent me a DVD that you had to pay for relatively recently, I will refrain from taking anything. I wish you the best of luck though.
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Well, I haven’t actually seen X-Men 2, so I’ll ask for that so I can keep my man-crush on Hugh Jackman alive.
But I’m doing this for you, not for my own greed.
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You mean doing it for Hugh.
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Wow, I’m surprised you remembered Far Cry 2. You’re awesome Shane 🙂
Manhunt & AC 3 if no one claims them. Wait until the last minute though, I don’t want anyone missing out.
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I just realised I misread the post. AC3 is on the 360 and i don’t own one. Give that to someone else.
I know Farc cry 2 is 360 as well but I want the rest of the stuff not the game. If you had already opened it then you can give the game to someone else. If it is sealed though-don’t touch that shit
🙂If manhunt is not claimed by anyone though I’m still keen. I regularly play my PS2.
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Sorry, totally unsealed. Okay, will keep the game separate and send you the bonus stuff.
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ohhhh my god.
Could I bother you for Ico and SotC please? That’s… yeah, that’s exciting.
Think of something I can give you in return though, otherwise I’ll have to think of something, and that’s a worrying scenario.
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Yeah man. Of course.
You’re aware that SotC is NTSC and ICO is disc only?Don’t give me anything. The point of this is clutter reduction. I’ll accept love, because there’s always room for that.
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I… may not have noticed the NTSC bit. Bugger, don’t have an NTSC PS2.
Probably best to give them to someone that’d be able to put them both to use. Thank you so much though Shane!-
Is it modded? Mine’s modded and can play everything.
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Nope, not modded.
If I *had* to pick again, I’d go with AC2 on X360, though again, it may be best to hold it for someone else anyway 😀
Lord knows I don’t need/deserve it! Thanks again, anyway mate. -
Please rank the truthfulness of the following sentence:
Aleph would like to play AC2 on his 360.
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I do not condone nor abhor above comment.
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I am interested in farscape:the peacekeeper wars but never actually saw the final season of farscape. That might give me the motivation I need to go and get it
Also interested in Mallrats and scrubs but give them to others if they want
TAKEO’S TUFF?!
WHO IS TAKEO AND WHY IS HE SO TUFF?! I demand answers.
EDIT: I want Dark Souls on PC! 😉
Mad Men! Just finished season 2 and started season 3 (two eps in one night. Wife and I really don’t want to have to talk to each other \o/)
Awesome show. Just awesome.
Me: I did no work today. Nothing.
Annie: Daddy, why didn’t they let you work?
Me: Oh, did I need to ask for their permission? I think I did it wrong.
Annie: Daddy, you need to go back to work now and do it properly!
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Not now that I started fishing. All good now.
In truth, desperately procrastinating. Feel oddly anxious tonight. Jittery and stressed.-
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Being serenaded might increase my stress a little 😛
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Tell her you’re glad you got the new glasses because now she is even more beautiful.
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She’s asleep and the baby’s in the bed 🙁
Next day my folks take the kids (2 weeks away), I’m taking the day off work and so are my specs.
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Wake her up by gently caressing her hair, and breathing in her scent, loudly.
She’ll think it’s romantic.
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Better yet, seal your mouth over her nose while she’s asleep. You can control her breathing, that way.
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Well. That got uncomfortable and weird quick.
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I was initially going to try to explain this away to mere happenstance, but y’know what?
Nope. I’m good with it as is.
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my figure collection grows larger D:
bought a Steins;Gate figure for 40 bucks off ebay, got a way better quality statue than i thought i would (it’s huge D:).
Also Mortal Kombat is funzies, i like the part where i kill the guy.
i was tempted to pick up injustice today, but decided my next game will have to be Fire Emblem after seeing the super hype trailer. but i’m only playing it for the waifu simulator.
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Figure collecting is dangerous. It’s a slippery slope. At first it seems pretty innocent then suddenly you’ve got no space for more but keep buying them.
Incidentally I’m probably going to be culling a lot of my older anime figures in a few months when I move out (need to make space for new ones). Any series/characters of particular interest to you?
OH MY GOD TAY WHAT’S GOIN’ ONNNNM?!
So, I’ve been stuck at home for 4 days now. Which is kinda nice, except for the reasoning behind it and all. Played WAAAAAAY too much DotA…
And, not much else actually. What’ve I missed? Hope everyone’s well.
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You’re… way too generous man. I’m intrigued as to the underlying reasons behind the giveaways. Lack of space?
Eugh, I’m prying into affairs I shouldn’t. Sorry.
Umm, In answer to your question, I responded up above though!-
No stress. I hate having so much stuff. Every now and again I try to break the hold the material world has over me by doing something like this. Also to remind me that being dumb with money leads to no net benefit for me. Also, I imagine rather illogically that I might get some good karma from sending shit to other people.
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Good Karma? Dude, the way you’re going, Karma’s going to drop the mortgage, pay off the credit cards and send you on a round-the-world-tour for the family, with pre-arranged paid leave from work.
And then some.Wow, so this is what adulthood is like. This is the extent of my imagination. That’s… that’s a little bit sad. -
I must be sad too, because all I can think is that would be the fucking best thing ever.
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Whatever happened to wanting to be an astronaut, or a giraffe, or any other number of things that my apparently frail and shriveled imagination cannot manifest any longer?
Actually, when I grow up, I wanna be a space-giraffe. Fuck yes. -
Being a space giraffe would be amazing.
Because they probably get paid pretty well and I could drop the mortgage, pay off the credit cards and send myself on a round-the-world-tour with the family, with pre-arranged paid leave from work. -
I always had the same dream for myself. I knew it would be hard work, but it’s sometimes more of a hard slog than I anticipated. The work : progress ratio is definitely not what I imagined 😛
I can’t imagine wanting to strike out further and go for astronaut. Too much damn work! Maybe a giraffe though. I already am tall with long neck.
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I don’t fit either of the criteria for space-giraffe, nor do I have the capacity to meet the criteria /o\
I think I’ll have to spend my days as a bed-sloth. I like that idea, too.
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All’s good man, just shitting through the eye of a needle.
HEY HOW ‘BOUT THAT DISCRETION THING, HUH ALEPH?!How are you doing man?
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I’ve been better, but I’ve been worse so I guess decent! 😀
Whatever’s up, hope things work out my friend!
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Hey man, the feeling’s mutual.
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For fecks sake.
Dark souls. Been trying all night to summon some help for Seath for my squishy Mage because I want some distractions to get the Moonlight Greatsword. Been getting nothing but fails. Finally get someone after 2.5 hours when a dark spirit invades and takes both of us out without blinking.
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Yeah man, he streams quite frequently!
I’ve never played the game, so I really don’t understand fully just what’s going on. This is typically how I spend my hours before sleep, though. Watching this stuff 😛-
Stream just reset itself to the beginning, so I ragequit 😛
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You mean the streamer reset the game? Tends to happen a lot in speedruns 😀
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Ohhh, it cut to an ad, and then started from scratch. I assumed glitch 😛
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I dunno, to be honest.
I still find it odd, people opening their hearts and homes to me.But yeah, that’d be super cool if we could! Also dinner meats. And movie meats. All the meats \o/
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Clear some space, I’m moving in.
Seriously though, thanks so much Freeze. I dare say I’ll forever be indebted to you, and the entirety of TAY. My folks will forever maintain that you’re all psychotic murderers though.
Because internet.-
Can’t it be both?
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I’m pewped. Toast and then bed before 12.
Today has been nothing short of pretty damn awesome though!
Re: Dark Souls.
I don’t own it, and only played like 2 minutes of it before figuring out it’s not my kind of game. Since i’m not much of an RPG fan. Unless it is Fallout. But you guys here seem to love it which is cool.
But I need to ask, is the PC really that “fucked”? my mate seems to think it is and he was sooking about it being “unplayable”.. and that controllers are shit for games and consoles suck and he hates the world and on and on it went.. I ended up saying “Your fault for buying it before researching it” which shut him right up.
He also said something about it looks shit, all I have to say to this is.. By now he should know to stay the fuck away from RPG’s that aren’t The Elder Scrolls or Fallout. Since he only complains about them, the Mass Effect rant went on for weeks Q_Q. Is it okay if I slap him for his whining? Someone please say yes!
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A single word against Dark Souls is more than enough for a slap. You have my permission to do whatever you feel is necessary.
And then report back here for your own punishment.
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It would be unplayable without a controller. Some games are made for it.
Never seen the PC version running but I have heard it doesn’t look great unless you tweak it a bit.
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He wasn’t complaining about the graphics, he pretty much said the controls make it unplayable and controllers are for babies.. This is the friend who owns a Wii U but despises Sony & Microsoft. Hilarious.
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That’s the problem, you can’t play it without a controller
I haven’t had an issue, even before I patched
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Well your friend is an idiot 😛
I’ve never played it with keyboard and mouse but I hear it works fine, but controller is preferred and recommended. I never ran it before using the fix mod but after installing it straight away, the game has run perfectly (aside from a few hardware issues cause by my own PC).
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Tbh, I think he is. He’ll complain about anything to do with a game if it isn’t perfect or he isn’t winning. He use to say everyone that killed him in TF2 was hacking because he was just so “perfect” at it.. Could never accept there were better people out there than him.
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@shane RE: Dark Souls speedrun
Just hit 20 minutes, and he’s taken out Taurus Demon, Belltower Gargoyles, Capra Demon, Gaping Dragon and Quelaag. Currently on world-record pace, too 😀
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You’d be asking the wrong person there, sorry. I really don’t know.
Umm… he’s using magic though, so I would assume robes of some kind, presuming the game follows typical RPG tropes?
#totallyhelping #hiharli
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That stream you linked to looked really interesting. I might be considering starting the game soon. Who knows 🙂
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So it’s like day 10, still no package in the mail Q_Q there’s always tomorrow! I should’ve realised it’d be the full 10 days from England >=[ since our customs go through everything with a fine tooth comb *sigh*
Also bought a Soundwave 2013 shirt because well I wasn’t waiting inline for ever at Soundwave to buy one..
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…which is tomorrow obviously because Wednesday 12am TOTALLY doesn’t mean now 😛
lrntoreporttimepeople
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Hahah!
I would’ve been annoyed if it was at the time you thought, I could’ve watched it last night! But of course it’s tonight, the one weeknight I’m not at home is the night of a Direct!
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Uh… Yes! A party! I have a thriving social life after all.
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Moonlit milkshake Monstrosity musterings
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So Roadrunner say the new Airbourne video is available on the TripleM website, I go there it’s no where to be found, so I Google it and Metal Hammer are also hosting it, oh what’s that it’s region blocked? Why is an Australian band’s music video region blocked from Aussies watching it.. That’s unfair man.
Diggs Nightcrawler looks better every time the devs release a new video.
It’s a wonderbook game btw
Dark Souls is only $20 on Greenman Gaming right now.
My bank isn’t letting me give moneys to Greenman Gaming right now. This shall have to be rectified as soon as possible.
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I’ll pester the doctor lady person I live with if my call to the bank doesn’t go as planned.
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How’s Sydney treating you so far?
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I have a head wound and a real bed, so it’s coming out fairly even right now. Need to worry about employment and all that at some point, just not right this second.
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Want a game/DVD to swing it back up from even? 😛
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@Shane no thanks, I have all of the stuff I’m interested in from that list already.
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Good morning DayTAY.
I am pleased to reveal to you something you’ve all been waiting for (page 10 repost).
the Third Annual Kindly Endowment of Surplus Terrific Unassuming Free Frivolity.
But the princess is in another castle. Try page 11.
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Howdy howdy shane … has anyone put their hand up for Ass creed 3? If not I’d give it a nice home
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If neither of them are interested in it, could I please have it? I’m the biggest Zelda fan I know 😛
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Thanks man 😀
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Haha I was wondering what magical game console had pretty much everything claimed until I noticed you just made a “claimed” category 😛
After finally seeing Injustice in action, it definitely looks a lot better than MK9 but it still looks Mortal Kombatty. Really, my main complaint is the costumes. Not a fan of the armoury look many of them have, particularly Flash.
If I had some money, I’d be all up in some of this:
http://www.mightyape.com.au/sales/3693/Xbox-360-MEGA-deals/Games/Xbox-360/?nt=1&utm_source=MailingList&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Xbox+360+MEGA+deals+end+tomorrow+-+more+reductions+made%21
Some highlights for lazy folks:
Max Payne 3 $20
Sleeping Dogs $19
DX:HR $7
Just Cause 2 $10
Darksiders 2 $24
and lots more. Pretty decent sale.
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Nope. I still have a waiting list of games to play. I’m good. Which is why I haven’t clicked on that MightyApe link and will not. 😀
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I’ve actually had a look through your list and the only stuff I was interested in has been claimed 😛
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They changed the site! There’s absolutely no chance that I misread it at all. :\
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I’m not sure I can believe this!
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I already bought that for you
I’m confused 🙁
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Then I am currently satisfied with your giveaway 🙂
Rules state one per a person!
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But that wasn’t part of this. If you want something…
Ugh, difficultius
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EPICA DAY!!!!
Soon to be followed by EPICA WEEKEND!!!!
I hope noone wanted those tickets because they are all gone.
Looking forward to seeing Epica again so much. Last time I saw them I had no idea they’d be releasing one of my favourite ever albums not long afterwards. And it’s always great to see a band’s first ever Australian show. 😀
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Thanks, I will. This is the warmup for the weekend so I’ll probably be really chilled and save the going nuts part for Friday’s show. 😛
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So, people demanding refunds because they got baptised in a video game.
I always wonder about these sorts of things. People complaining about something like this in such a way – I wonder if they’re honestly offended or making noise because they feel like it’s something that they could or should be offended by, and feel obliged to pursue it.
Either way, people are fucking idiots. It’s nothing new, but courtesy of the internet we’re more aware of the rampant fuckdom in the world than we used to be.
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I haven’t played Bioshock Infinite (or any Bioshock game), but I assumed from what little I’ve read that it was going to contain religious and nationalist overtones.
Anyone who feels offended, rather than challenged, by the subtext of entertainment like this was never the target market to begin with, and they should have done five minutes of research before buying it.
Edit: Want a game/DVD?
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Scholar and a gentleman. Let me know how you want my deets when you’re ready.
Love your work.
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I haven’t read that article in case of spoilers but if you object to baptism based on religious/atheist grounds then you can’t progress beyond that point in the game. Which means you can’t play the game. So theoretically they’re within their rights to ask for a refund to an unplayable (for them) game.
Last Question/Beardy/Hellscream was very disturbed by that event. I remember him musing on Twitter if he should continue.-
But it’s an event happening to a fictional character. Would you avoid a baptism depicted in a book or on a TV show for the same reason? From what I understood of the article,
the baptism doesn’t sound like it was aimed at lampooning religiosity so much as it was a plot device to explain the extremism of Columbia (but could be way off there).-
I also thought the old fashioned god fearing religious themes were fairly obvious, especially ina lot of the trailers and screenshots we got prior to release. The imagery, and messages in trailers/screenshots about ‘staying strong against the invaders/infidels’ (the specifics of the messages escape me) and some implied racist themes as well were fairly obvious.
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On this, I stayed away from all that stuff, like I always do with games that interest me. The religious themes surprised me slightly, but my first encounter with racism shocked me.
And made me realise that everyone I’d seen and eavesdropped on until then had been white and I hadn’t even noticed. D:I think that impact made the game more enjoyable for me so I’m very glad I stayed away from all info beforehand. -
It also took me few moments to realise it was a bi-racial couple I was being asked to throw a ball at. It just didn’t occur to me that that was a problem. I was very happy to not have to throw the ball and just let that timer run down. An option that might have been handy for the baptism. 😛 -
I quite happily attempted to throw the ball at the announcer.
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Some people would, growing up I was banned from watching TV shows that included super natural & obvious religious tones.
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But if someone is living under that kind of regime, why would they buy this game? I don’t get that bit. 😛
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I have no idea what religious types think, I’m coming at this from empathy towards atheist types.
I myself am neither religious nor atheist, by the way.
I guess I can’t speak for everyone, but I figure if you can’t look past that kind of thing, you really need to work on your tolerance. It’s not happening to you personally. It’s a character. In a video game.
I’m as atheist as the day as the day is long, but I find religion intriguing, and often amusing. I thought the potential religious connotations in this game were fairly obvious, if not merely implied. It’s also amusing that tearing around massacring people by the hundred in often the most brutal fashion is OK, but a virtual baptism is not?
Again, I guess I’m not everyone – I just think it’s a little sad people can’t be more objective.
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I had gathered leading up to the game that it was going to be pretty majorly influenced by religion, and not neccessarily for the better. I feel like people who are this easily offended owe it to themselves to at least do a little research before purchasing something like this.
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But no research would have turned up the forced baptism on a day one purchase. Having a religiously overtoned game is one thing, but that was a whole different thing entirely. There’s no way to continue playing the game without accepting that baptism. I think that’s the thing. A forced baptism where you really had no choice would have been different. This is one you have to actively say “yes” to or you can’t continue.
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I feel like I’m not really able to properly assess the situation objectively. I wouldn’t be offended, but that doesn’t mean no one should be. I think something that would offend a religious person being in a game with such heavy religious themes in the advertising would be pretty well expected though.
Regardless, there’s a distinction that needs to be made between being uncomfortable about it and being offended. From what I gather having not played the game, it’s supposed to be uncomfortable.
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A baptism is a bit more then “heavy religious themes”. Especially when it is completely forced upon the player.
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Quibble: It’s forced upon the character, not the player.
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See, this is what I meant when I said I’m not able to properly assess this objectively. A baptism means nothing to me, so I wouldn’t be offended. I’m not saying no one should be offended by the baptism, I couldn’t possibly say that.
Again, I haven’t played the game, so I wouldn’t know, but the point is to be confronting isn’t it? Not just with religion and not just with the baptism, but with pretty much the entire game.
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The game is supposed immerse the player, you can’t then turn around and say “oh no it was the character not the player”. If they really wanted to separate the player from the character the scene would have been 3rd person or even a skippable cutscene.
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There’s a difference between confronting and outright offensive and I can say without a doubt that I would have been heavily offended by that part of the game a few years ago.
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Fair enough.
Let’s talk about Dark Souls now.
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Maybe it should have just been a cutscene with no ‘choice’. I gather that being forced to press the A button is what people are objecting to :\
I’m liking that it has such an impact though. It’s obviously what was intended, that feeling of having to surrender to something you don’t want to.
Edit: And I get the feeling it might be something I think about later when everything inevitably goes to shit in the gameworld. I chose it. I chose to begin this in that moment.
I think it’s because quite often people tend to identify the character as themselves. I know I do. It’s why I hesitated at that point, and why I considered not playing when I discovered I was killing ordinary people as opposed to the deranged/monstrous enemies of the original Bioshock. If your religious/atheist views are an integral part of you are, I guess it could be hard to separate.
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I guess it’s probably a good portion of my confusion – I’m not religious and never have been, so can’t really identify with how it would resonate with someone who is.
I grew up in a fairly religious family and used to be a religious person, so I felt a little uncomfortable at the point. Today I wouldnt say im a religious peron so I can’t imagine how uncomfortable someone that is actually religious would probably feel.
The fact that it is forced upon the player just makes it a whole lot worse.
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I understand what you’re saying, but if a person has religious hang-ups, then buying a game that overtly markets itself as a story exploring religious and other extremism might not be the best move 😛
Just as you wouldn’t buy a shellshocked soldier a COD game, or … I don’t know, a GTA game for a hooker.
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Baptism is a bit of a touchy subject, it has a hell of a lot of meaning to someone that is religious.
It completely blindsided me even though I thought I knew what I was getting into
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Edit: wanted to have a strong opinion on this but really not worth offending anyone
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Feel free, man. For my part, I don’t offend easily.
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I’m a hardcore atheist, and I’ve not played Infinite, but here is what I figure: It’s just a game.
I think I should play Infinite sooner rather than later, because discussion is starting to become more open and specific around the places I frequent. Not that this baptism thing is specifically a spolier, but the less I know going in to a game, the happier I (usually) am.
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Yeah, I was a bit disappointed when I was spoiled by Beardy’s aforementioned complaints on Twitter. Part of the reason why I made a plea to borrow the game. Bioshock games rely on their story for awesomeness more than most.
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Still $40 for Code by Email from OGS…I may end up getting spoiled. Ah well, I’m sure I’ll live.
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I don’t really admit it or even talk about it but I am religious to a point (some sort of higher power, girls are both baptised, go to catholic schools, got married in a church, fuck churches, fuck ruining my day with worship, fuck changing my life to what someone thinks I should) and that scene didn’t even make me think twice about anything until today. Which made me think the hell is wrong with people and is there anything Hernandez can’t find anything to be offended about?
I think the only hesitation was to have a quick look to see what the other options were out of curiosity same as any other event in the game.
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For realsies, I dont really get the issue here. Its fictional. Its just a story. I feel like its more an opportunity for people to boast about how anti religion they are. I mean, what, you seriously dont mind simulated murder, but are against simulated baptism? Really?
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I agree. The fact you’re playing Booker, someone who’s got his own personality and backstory instead of role playing as yourself makes a huge difference too. This is someone who’s doing their own thing and this is a choice they’re willing to make to do it.-
At the point it happens in the story, ‘Booker’ has said maybe three lines and you’ve never seen his face. The whole ‘you’re playing a character’ argument completely falls down when it’s a first-person game – you are Booker, you’re not playing as him the way you would be if it were a third person game.
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You see his face when you enter the light house and look in the holy water. Haha. Nitpicking I know, but I definitely felt like this was a character and I was just watching his story unfold.Different interpretations is good, I guess. 😀
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Boooo!
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If the people getting offended are religious, shouldn’t the first enemy have halted their progress cause, “Thou Shall Not Kill” and all that?
Edit: okay I haven’t played infinite so I’ll just get outta TAY for the day, my uneducated opinions aren’t needed here
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To be fair, there’s no way anyone went into this game not knowing there’d be killing involved.
That said, I don’t like this argument because it kind of feels like it’s devaluing something incredibly important to a lot of people.
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Really? Because the Ten Commandments are the entire foundation of Christianity and part of being baptized is the parents swearing to the church to raise their children with that in mind. Being offended by the baptism but being fine with everything else is hypocritical at best. If they want to use the excuse that the killing is fake, so is the baptism.
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Disagree that the 10 C’s are the entire foundation of Christianity.
Christianity is founded on the belief that Jesus of Nazareth (Christ) is the son (and embodiment) of God and that he atoned for the sins of mankind.
The 10 C’s are common across other Abrahamic religions, so predate Christ, so I supposed they are fundamental in a way.
I guess it depends if the “sins” that Christ died for are wholly encapsulated within the commandments. I’d look into it, but can’t be bothered.
Either way, without “Christ” (the belief that God Jr was born on Earth and sacrificed himself) there is no Christianity.(EDIT: I was raised Anglican. As far as I’m aware Catholicism places more value on the Old Testament, and therefor the commandments)
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When we baptized our kids they were pretty specific about the whole Ten Commandments thing.
Also, without the whole Old Testament and the ideals of it, Christ is more just a random dude with some weird ideas.
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@freezespreston Interesting. It’s been a while since I’ve been to one.
My comments weren’t so much to do with baptism, but Christianity as a whole.I get what you mean, but the Old Testament is not specifically Christian.
It’s like how Easter is the holiest event in the Christian calendar. Sure, without Christmas you can’t have Easter, but Christianity wouldn’t exist if Easter didn’t occur as it does in the Bible.
Without the belief that Jesus was Christ, those who are Christian today would be Jewish or Muslim (yet still preach the ten commandments, and Jesus’ teachings, but regard him as a prophet or whatever and not Christ).
(By the way, I’m not knocking your beliefs or anything.)
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I get that. I just think that for something labelled and even sold as a first person shooter, there seem to be double standards.
Oh man, I hope that’s not the feeling you got from my response to you. COLON PEE,COLON PEE!
You are always welcome here. You’re one of us.
I’m annoyed people would return the game instead of playing it over something so trivial, but I can see why it bothers people. Still, it’s not like the character was even into it, and quite clearly says he’ll just go with it to get into the city and find the girl. If you’re an athiest or practitioner of a religion that does not use baptism, the baptism means nothing to you anyway. Do you recoil in horror when people tell you to go to hell? No, it’s just words.
Sure there’s no way out, but there’s your choice. You either go through with it, or quit the game and return it. So it annoys me, but people are free to make that choice.
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They were Christian and were offended that a “Christian” ceremony had been misappropriated.
Baptisms are kind of important in Christianity (although some branches put more importance on it than others) but it’s not exactly a ceremony that is unique to that religion. After all, Jesus was a Jew and he got baptised.
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Ah. I hadn’t read the article in question (as is probably apparent) and was mainly commenting on non-religious people I know that were annoyed at being forced into the baptism.
The misappropriation angle… well, that’s slightly more understandable, but it also means you’re severely limiting your view to what you think it’s for as opposed to what baptism represents to cultures outside of the Christianity/Catholocism they personally might be familiar with.
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Yeah, if I was going to return the game it would be because it’s really not very good, not because of the baptism bit at the start.
I was not offended by the baptism.
I can understand why people might be.
Ending spoilers:
The reason why you “have” to be baptised to enter Columbia is because it’s an implanted memory. There is no baptism at Columbia, Booker’s compositing the memory of the priest baptising in the river post-Massacre at Wounded Knee. You come to after the baptism in an inch high pool at the gardens in Columbia – you’re put there by one of the Lutece twins (probably the brother) after they’ve played out their “bring us the girl, wipe away the dept” act. Same thing that happens when you die – you always die, the Lutece twins just grab another Booker from another slightly different universe and put him in place.
Anyway, the guy in the story was actually very clear and level headed about it. He encountered something that, when he measured it against his beliefs, didn’t line up for him. He kept his faith and decided to return the game. He actually bothered to explain it was on a principle of religious belief in his first communication with Valve, rather than keep that important bit of information secret and let the whole thing blow out of proportion.
So that Star Trek trailer looks fucking awesome. If I get to one movie this year (and if I’m lucky, I’ll get to one) it’ll be that.
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It’s the only MMO I’ve played since Ragnarok Online in the late 90s so I don’t have a basis for comparison, but it’s not that bad. The ship combat is pretty fun. It’s kind of annoying that all the good stuff is hidden behind a paywall but I guess I should’ve been grateful that there was a free to play component at all.
In any case, I didn’t play it long. I ranked up a few times, got some better ships, visited Deep Space 9, then realised I don’t have time to spend playing an MMO and uninstalled it. I certainly spent more time with it than I did Star Wars: The Old Republic when that went free to play.
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Played a heap with Pixel, and we both found it pretty great. It’s not the best game in the world, but it was a lot of fun. Plus, the free to play model is really non-invasive, which is nice.
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just had it pointed out to me that in the new trailer, at about 1.16…
theres a ship, supposedly an enemy one, that looks quite a bit like the main ship from Next Generation. more time travel involved?I dunno though, never been into Star Trek much, though I liked the first reboot movie enough, so I’ll probably end up checking this one out.
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I’m same as you, dude. Apart from a little bit of Voyager, I knew little about Star Trek, other than what you would absorb through other pop culture. But I really enjoyed the reboot film 🙂
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Why can’t I dress Phoenix and Kokone in a Steel Samurai and Pink Princess suit? This is an outrage!
(Have they released an English name for Kokone yet?)
So there seems to be a few sales out and about.
The only one you should care about???
SPACE MARINE IS $15 ON PS3 AT MIGHTYAPE!!!
GO BUY A COPY!
BUY THREE COPIES!!
ONE FOR YOU, ONE FOR A FRIEND, AND ONE AS A GLORIOUS ‘GRILDFRIEND REPLACMENT’, WHO’S HOLE WILL CUT YOUR MAN BITS UP IN THE NAME OF THE EMPORAHHH!!!
http://www.mightyape.com.au/product/PS3/Warhammer-40000-Space-Marine/7938022/
GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO!!!!
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Except the emperor is a shonk and doesn’t give you the achievement earned for finding all the servo skulls
ROBBED!!!
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Pages mean nothing until you know the size of the font used 😛
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Man how awesome would it be if it actually was in 72 point font.
And how EPIC would it be if it was in 3pt font.
Did she write you a sonnet?
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Haha no sonnet. Just alot about her & Slipknot/Stone Sour and stuff she has wanted to tell me for ages but wanted to put it in writing, then on to how awesome I am apparently.
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You can see it in the photo and I would estimate 10 / 12 point font but the sweetest thing is that it is hand written
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Whilst that is true, to me the sweetest thing is it’s written with the engraved pen that @freezespreston engraved for me that I gave to her as a present.
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I backed this on Kickstarter, it’s a really cool looking chase game set in a The Prisoner-esque british countryside.
You can now preorder it through Humble, get on to it!
Hmmm…I wish to go into the city and buy pretzels but I’m worried it’ll tire me out too much and my old lady body will fail me tonight at Epica.
Anyone wish to go buy me some and home-deliver them? 😛
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I’m addicted to fresh pretzels. These are the traditional german type but I also love and quite often am craving the US type. Especially their pepperoni ones with cheese dipping sauce. One of my favourite things to eat when in America.
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The ones they had at the Bavarian Beer Cafe in Brisbane were amazing. Came with a bowl of butter too. Heart stoppingly delicious. Quite literally.
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I didn’t know there was one of those in Brisbane. When are we having a Meat there? Or did you guys already have one there without me?
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Neither did we. Mrs Freeze and myself we’re wandering around looking for somewhere to eat before Ross Noble and about to go into a George’s Paragon when we saw that next to it and I was all “hey, the Sydney folks are always rambling about this place” so we tried it.
No regrets and we want to go back.
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Next time we Meat in Brisbane that will be the location, then. 😀
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The only pretzels I’ve ever had are the ones that you find in the chip aisle of the supermarket 😛
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You are missing out. And probably thirsty. 😛
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As I said last night, I already have dinner plans. I know exactly where I’m going and I’ll be going there regardless of if anyone joins me. I just didn’t want to tell the internet where I’d be all alone at night at. 😛
Are you joining me? Because then I can tell you where I’m going. 😀
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Yay! I’ll tell you in an email in case you pike out on me. 😛
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You know me well.
Also, I don’t want to ‘crash’ any plans you have. If you’d prefer to be alone, that’s good too! 😀
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I’m really glad my boss isn’t in the office today because I am too damn tired to be my super productive usual self. On the upside, I pretty much got ahead in my work yesterday and have nothing of importance on today anyway. If it weren’t for all these other people hanging about I could just nap at my desk.
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He is a really easy to talk to, down to earth guy. There were a bunch of people there, mostly from the Roo Teeth community, who were just as happy chatting with each other instead of everyone trying to get in Jack’s face at once so the whole evening was pretty chill.
He was a little later than he had originally said so I wound up having to leave after he’d only been there about an hour and a half, but that was still plenty of time to hang out, and I think everyone had a good time.
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Awesome to hear. I’ve met Gav and Burnie in the past and while they were cool people, the fans around them were a bit grating. Maybe the presence of alcohol helps.
Anyway, you got to stroke Jack’s beard. That’s so cool!
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Yeah, I’m always concerned that there’s going to be “that guy” or maybe a group of them that will make things weird for everyone.
I think it helped that everyone had pretty much gotten there an hour before Jack did and no one was in any great hurry, plus there was only 15-20 of us there.
One guy did ask how one would go about getting a job with Rooster Teeth/Achievement Hunter which, you know, probably happens about a hundred times a day whenever these guys go to any event, given that Jack had prepared a comprehensive answer about their recruiting process..
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Anybody interested in a copy of the original Poker night at the inventory?
Have a spare copy so ask* and you shall receive
*Only the first person to ask shall receive
Hi all. Don’t forget to take part in the Third Annual Kindly Endowment of Surplus Terrific Unassuming Free Frivolity while the going is still good.
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I remeber The Bards Tale (2004). That was a good game.
This isn’t me taking the game. I don’t think I would even be able to play it due to my lack of original Xbox.-
I think it plays on 360. Internet is vague about this, though, and I’m too lazy to test it. Do you want it?
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@greenius
Hey Green.
Sorry I didn’t reply earlier. Only just noticed the mentions. I’ll shoot through some of your main points.
Yes SEEK does advertise graduate positions. Just search “graduate position” and select whatever classification you are interested in. eg. Marketing or Management or Admin or HR or whatever. I’m an engineer so I don’t know exactly what “business” would fall under. Perhaps go by what subjects you enjoyed.
In engineering, we are required to do 3 months of industry work as part of our course. You can’t graduate without it. It’s usually done over the summer break between years 3 and 4.
Perhaps you can find somewhere that will take you for one or 2 days per week (depending on your classes I guess), even if it’s for free, you’ll get good experience and some extra stuff to put on your resume.
I can’t really help you with specifics for Business, perhaps go see your course co-ordinator or guidance counsellors. Monash isn’t great at offering help on their own accord, but it’s all there for you if you ask.
I assume with a major like banking and finance, you would be looking at jobs with banks, insurance companies, accountants, credit unions, pretty much any admin or management. Probably a good entry level could be payroll.
Again I don’t know much about those fields but if you like that stuff I would think banking would the more desirable direction. Seems to me like that could have the most career potential as well as decent pay.
Lack of experience is always an issue with graduates. On one hand businesses “should” realise this on the other hand anything that sets you apart from other students is beneficial. You have to remember that with any graduate job you are competing with other graduates. What makes you better than the next guy?
It’s a bit harder with graduates too because you have to look good on paper. companies get heaps for graduate applications and you have to get to the short list first before you can wow them in person. (more on this later). So yes, any extra activities, be it sports clubs, community work, fundraising etc etc will give you the edge over the competition.
A really handy thing (and pretty easy) to do is to be on a club or association committee. It can be a uni club, or a sports club or a gaming club or anything like that. For example most uni clubs are proper registered associations. My pool club is the same and I’ve been on the executive committee of that for a few years. I also helped form the Monash inline hockey club when I was there. I was on that committee and the snowsports club too.
Yes these things do take extra time (some more than others) however the uni ones are at least convenient because they take place at uni (for meetings and stuff).
So if you play any sports or are in any clubs, try to get on the committees.
As a side note, do you have your license and a car yet?
References are controversial. I think these days they are becoming more and more obsolete. I don’t display references on my resume because I still have a job. That way they don’t call up your boss randomly and cause unpleasant situations.
Also alot of people just get their friends or co-workers to act as references. Eg my mate bob is my manager should anyone call the number I supplied (which is his number). Personally I dont like this, but so many people do it that its pretty much the norm.
Lecturers and teachers make good references. I think I had one high school and one uni teacher on my first resume.
Also if you are really stuck for references, it doesn’t always have to be your boss. it could be a supervisor or another senior team member.
Usually you just put references as the last section on the resume. Sometimes you can put a written and signed paragraph (I think thats what my school teacher did) and sometimes just the contact details and their relationship to you. Just depends what you have available.
I’d be happy to look through your resume if you like. email is mszarek1 @ thatgmailthing.
a few other random points of advice.
A lot of the larger companies (think Shell, Comm Bank, Woolworths etc) have graduate programs. These are hard to get into and usually only have an intake once or twice per year, but they are an excellent structured one or 2 year program. If you can get into one of those (or know someone) they are an awesome stepping stone.
I agree that on the job learning is better than uni learning. Uni teaches you how to learn … that is all. Every job will be different and every job will teach you something new.
If you do get really stuck, try asking around for some unpaid or work experience stuff. Even if it’s only a month or 2. If you don’t have a job then you’re not losing anything, and you are getting experience and resume filler.
Also those sort of situations can quite often lead into full time and paid positions if you do a good job.
That’s all I got. Let me know if you have any other questions, or email me.
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Yeah i forgot a TLDR…. cbf to be honest.
I had a quick look at your list shane. Thanks for the offer but I’ll pass.
I recently bought tomb raider, bioshock infinite, Arma 3 Alpha and SC2. Still have hitman to finish and lots of tasty new warhammers.
So I got plenty to keep my busy for the next 3 years….
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Thanks man! Yeah, I’ve got a car and license but still haven’t really driven anywhere on my own yet 😛 (other than the local shopping centre to catch the bus for Uni)
I’ll send the resume now.
Mass Effect 3 replaythrough, this time with all the DLC.
Just left the Citadel on course for the Turian world. Man, the Citadel is so damn pretty in this game. My favourite part of any Mass Effect game is getting to explore the Normandy for the first time too.
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Haha, no, in some ways this is my favourite Mass Effect.
I loved almost everything on the Citadel and Normandy. All the character moments. The only thing I missed in this game was the loyalty quests and the lack of ‘hub’ worlds like Illium and the like.-
I hated how the Citadel seemed to feel smaller and smaller in terms of what you can explore as the series went on, big disappointment
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The Mass Effect 3 Normandy was a massive tripping hazard incident waiting to happen, so many cables strung along the floor near the comms room-
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Where were the caution / danger signs? The yellow and red painted trip hazards? Did they have lockout tags on unusable equipment? Did they fill out a WMS (Work Method Statement) before entering the Normandy? So unrealistic, WORST.GAME.EVER
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I love exploring the Normandy, though I was a bit disappointed with the dingy, cluttered nature of the ship. I think the game (contacting people, making deals, gathering resources etc.) is canonically supposed to actually take place over the course of a few months. would it have killed people to tidy up? There’s goddamn cables laying around all over, that’s an OH&S issue right there.
“This is Diana Allers with some breaking news: Commander Shepard, last hope for the universe, will be unable to attend the war after being tragically paralyzed because JOE LEFT SOME GODDAMN CABLES ON THE FLOOR NEAR THE ELEVATOR, SERIOUSLY JOE YOU HAD ONE JOB”
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Plus, someone stole all Shepard’s model ships and left them laying around the Normandy. What is wrong with some people?
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One day I’m going to replay the whole trilogy and see what it’s like if I
save Ash instead of Alenko.-
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Yeah, I agree actually. I decided that purely on mission importance too. I had Kaidan with the secondary team and Ash with the bomb and I thought making sure the bomb wasn’t interfered with was the more important goal. She just happened to be Shep’s love interest, but I would’ve helped Kaidan if he was at the bomb as well!
Also added a cool angle to game, wondering if I only chose her because of the love interest thing. XD
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They wrecked her look in the third game I think. She goes from tough soldier to plastic runway model with too much botox.
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Haha! Ashley was only a space racist in the first game, product of a sheltered Earth-centric childhood. She had an entire arc where you called her out on it and she learned to deal with other species and consider them friends. It was awesome and probably my favourite character arc in the entire game.I say BAH!-
I never experienced that arc, due to the fact that she annoyed me, and so I refused to ever speak with her. She got to sit in the corner, never having any fun. I would talk to everyone on the ship, except for her. Because erggh. Space Nazi. I was the best Shepard. -
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ME3 spoilers.
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Because why would you bother spending time with the whiny racist when there’s Wrex, Garrus and Tali around?
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One day I swear I’ll finish at least the first game. After hearing how incredible it was meant to be, I wasn’t exactly impressed.
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Did you get stuck in its opening few hours? It’s a real slow burn, initially (by which I mean that it’s slow and boring, not well paced). Takes a bit for the game to really get good.
Edit: And by “a bit” I’m talking a good five hours. Also, you should play as an Adept, as they are the best class, no question.
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Sorry I can’t hear anything from you… oh that’s right CUZ I JUST DISABLED BOTH YOUR GUNS AND ALL YOUR FEEBLE ABILITIES
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I got to where I had to drive that shitty fucking tank thing along a cliff face to get to someone. A queen or something? I don’t remember. After I finally got there the door wouldn’t open so I died because you can’t be outside. I wasn’t enjoying myself before that point, so for it to prevent me from progressing after spending way too long to get there didn’t exactly sell the game to me.-
I remember that bit. It makes me sad that you don’t like the Mako. The Mako was rad. But yeah, I had to play through that bit three times because of its terrible save system, and the fact that I kept dying at the end. I had a lot of free time back then.
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With the DLC do you ‘activate it’ yourself? I like to save the DLC until the end of the game so I finish with lots of new stuff…
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It activates like leviathan; going to a new place via elevator on the citadel. Omega activates once you see Aria after she sends a message. The Citadel DLC becomes available pretty far into the game, though.
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Cool! Thanks man!
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Morning TAYbies, quick question time. I was looking through my mini pile of shame on the xbox and I need some help deciding what I should play on the weekend. Here be the contenders.
Spec Ops: The Line
The Walking Dead
Max Payne 3
Resident Evil 4
Fallout 3
Gears of war 2
Gears of war 3
… and Dark Souls
I humbly await you all to make my decision for me
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Walking Dead
Then Dark Souls.
Edit: I typed this before your edit. Serendipitous to say the least.
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I’m going to assume Tofu editted in Dark Souls because under no logical circumstance would you suggest another game (specifically Spec Ops) instead of Dark Souls.
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… there was no edit, Dark souls is not up there, Dark Souls never existed. It’s all in your mind, Greenius
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You could probably play through all of The Walking Dead in one weekend if you set your mind to it! Play that!
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Do one ep a day (or as much as you can). It’s best not to rush it and you’ll need time to recover from sadness 😛
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I got like 20 minutes into that game and accidentally swung at an npc and spent the next hour trying to run away so he couldn’t murder me … I had to end up starting a new game and then did the exact same thing because I sneezed and pressed one of the triggers. The game is torture and I don’t know how people find it fun.
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oh shush you
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You get out as well. But since you like Dark Souls I will allow you to stand outside and look in the window, tapping occasionally to communicate.
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Nope. If Seinfeld’s on the menu, I’m more than happy to be well out.
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I didn’t even really like Friends that much, but it had it’s moments. Seinfeld was just agonising. That variety of neurotic humor kills me. Entirely unfunny.
SERIOUSLY JERRY YOU’RE A WHINY, NEUROTIC FUCKBAG. SHUT THE FUCK UP.
I kind of yelled that at the TV more than once whenever I saw the start of an episode.
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Agreed on all fronts. It wasn’t that Friends was better, it was just watchable compared to the other one. 😛
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Jerry was never funny. I wished death upon Elaine more than once.
George, Kramer, Neumann, Morty, Uncle Leo, frank, Estelle, Peterman, Steinbrenner, Puddy, Bania, The Peurto Ricans, Soup Nazi and most of all Jackie Chiles are all freaking hilarious.
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Was it deliberately ironic that Jerry is a comedian but more or less played the straight man to the wacky antics of his retarded friends?
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I think the point was meant to be that Jerry’s life and daily interactions, rather than his own imagination, were the fuel for his comedy. Irony sort of factors into that a bit, but I think it’s more a secondary effect.
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All I saw everyone do on Seinfeld whenever I have to watch it through dinner is all of them shouting, screaming and arguing over the stupidest little things and that constant high pitched whiny tone of voice just ends up pissing me off and giving me a headache.
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Injustice : Gods among us – initial impressions.
Gameplay (no spoilers)
I was pretty much expecting a re-skinned Mortal Kombat 9, but this has a pretty different feel.
Stages – The stages are far bigger than in MK9, and have multiple areas that you can access by hitting your opponent (or being hit yourself) through a wall, so it feels bigger. And the environments are pretty interactive – theres probably five areas in each stage that can be interacted with, either to cause damage to your opponent, or to maneuver around the arena faster. Each arena looks great, and has a bucket-load of detail that you’ll never notice while playing, but its there nevertheless.
Characters – The division of the characters into two ‘classes’ is interesting. Heavy / Big characters (Superman, Bane, Lex Luthor etc) fall into the ‘Power’ class. Their attacks are slower, but they hit damn hard.
By contrast, the ‘Gadget’ characters (Batman, Joker, Green Arrow etc) rely on maneuverability and fast, but weak, attacks.
A lot of effort has gone into balancing these two playstyles, coz so far neither one has an outright advantage over the other & both are fun to play as.
Another point of difference between Power & Gadget classes, is how they interact with the environment. eg: a car sitting in the stage – the joker (a gadget character) grabs his opponent & rams their head into the bonnet. Where as Superman (a power class) picks up the car & throws it across the stage for a long-ranged attack.
Where every character is the same however, is in walking speed. Goddamn…. they all feel so slow!
Gamemodes – its got your standard fighting-game modes : ladder, story, practice, one-off quick matches, and a series of challenges called the STAR ladder – ~250 levels with certain conditions that have to be met to progress. Very similar to MK9’s challenge tower.
Multiplayer seems to be very similar to the single player (without the START tower).
Common to both single & multi, are modifiers for your matches – start with 50% health, no super meters etc, that you unlock by spending points earned by completing in-game challenges. (again, much like the Krypt from MK9).
Random other stuff – Each character has a ‘Super move.’ This is activated by building up your super meter by dealing or receiving damage, and hitting the two trigger buttons simultaneously. Dont know how I feel about these. They look cool, but when you can feasibly pull off four of them during a single match, they sort of lose their coolness. if their use was more restricted, for example, if it were only useable when your opponent had <10% health or as a fatality-esque finisher at the end of the round, it would have far more impact.
The game has also cleverly hidden loading screens between most matches (at least in ladder & vs modes) by having an extended victory animation of your character.
Story (contains story stuff announced pre-launch. no spoilers from the game post intro cutscene, but you’ve been warned).
If you played story mode in Mortal Kombat 9, you’ll know what to expect here. A cutscene, in which every character is just looking for an excuse to pick a fight, followed by a fight. Voice acting is decent.
Every character is brooding or manic as fits their story. One in particular is worth mentioning – The Joker. it took me maybe an hour of seeing him in the story mode before I remembered that Mark Hammill is no longer doing the voice. Whoever the new guy is, is emulating Hammill very well… But I’m not sure how I feel about that. Why not put your own spin on the character? Why bother just being an exact copy of the guy before you?
Basic story premise – Parallel universe in which, after Metropolis is destroyed by the Joker, Superman snaps & murders the clown. This event changes the Man of Steel, and how he deals with criminals. Pretty much Orwell’s 1984 if Superman was big brother.
Two factions emerge – Theres the oppressive Regime (obviously bad), and the underground Rebellion (obviously good). What I found great is the shaking up of the status quo – not all characters have the allegiance you might assume.
I’ve always thought that Superman is a really boring hero. And I stand by that. He is. But he makes a brilliant villain. All-powerful and corrupt. Im only an hour or so into the Story campaign, but I’m keen to see how the rest of it plays out….
Oh and…
Wow. In this, Aquaman is not a joke character. He’s actually quite the bad-arse. Yeah, it surprised me too.
Also, Green Arrow & Deathstroke = best characters.
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Story stuff:
Bunny and I have discussed this at length, but essentially, The Joker needs to be there to play off the batman of the series. In Young Justice, they have The Joker play a major role in one episode, but since Batman isn’t there, it really doesn’t work(doesn’t help that it was just a really meh performance). Similarly, while I didn’t like The Joker of “Under the Red Hood” initially, he fit well as a contrast to that Batman. Since Kevin Conroy is voicing Batman is Injustice, it makes sense to retain the Mark Hamill style of Joker.-
I’ve always thought that
the best villains are the ones that compliment and contrast the heroes. Joker and Batman is a great example because Batman strictly follows his rules while Joker has none. Luthor and Superman also work as one represents the peak of human capability while the other exceeds it.
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Regarding the story spoilers:
In Kingdom Come, Superman retired after a new hero showed up and killed the Joker and people rejoiced. So he retired because the world wanted a different type of hero and a war broke out between various factions of super heroes. In Justice League, there was a parallel universe where Superman killed Lex Luthor (who also happened to be President) after finally giving up his ideals. The Justice League became the Justice Lords and they ruled the world in much the same way.There really are no new ideas.
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Very little. To be honest, it’s almost the same plot except I liked the Justice Lords one better.
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Regarding those spoilers and Arkham City spoilers:
Why the hell does so much revolve around killing this one character?Edit: And…
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The aptly named Joker Immunity. The only way to truly defeat the Joker (and others like Luthor) is to kill them. Heroes like Superman and Batman have a strict moral code that defines who they are as heroes. Killing off someone with Joker Immunity shows that they are willing to break that moral code in order to finally rid the world of that villain, thus redefining their character which has worldwide consequences.
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If @kermitron shuts me down, I’d be happy to offer it to you, if you are happy to swap out the discs and give your current copy away (possibly to him) 🙂
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I’ll pass, I’m happy with my copy (has all the dlc).
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Academic at this point, but I did say
swap out the discs
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I want it but I don’t know if I’ll ever get around to playing it plus it’s on PS3 which is my less-preferred console. Better to let it go to someone who really intends to enjoy it.
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But there are reasons why someone else probably needs it more. I would feel horrible taking it. 🙁
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TAKE. IT.
http://t.co/zJARCjwl97 SHOULD TELL YOU WHY.
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VERY WELL.
@shane I will stop being such a bitch about it and accept your kind gift. Let me know what I have to do in terms of postage.
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I was tempted by the cloth map, but I’ll never play the game (I have it on PC).
So overall, it would be wasted on me
I started making a top yesterday to possibly wear tonight. Guess I’d better get back to it. If I’d been sewing it by machine I would have been done in an hour. 😛
I was actually wishing I’d finished it last night because it would have been kind of awesome for Mr. Strange to get it signed by Epica for me at the Meet and Greet. And then I could have worn it on Friday night and had the best Epica shirt ever. 😀
I haven’t had any thing to eat all day yet, but knowing what’s for dinner makes me want to save my appetite. Looks amazing. 😀
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I didn’t eat anything until I had KFC on the bus on the way to Uni
Large chips, Twisted, 3 wicked wings and a drink :D. Those wicked wings were mighty crunchy so I have a feeling everyone must’ve been staring at me eating it.
There was clearly a “No food or drink is to be consumed” sign but whatevs. Fuck the system!
The ‘point’ of that story was I didn’t eat anything until then (at around 12pm) and I’ve been full from then until now 😀 (when I’m eating dinner)
People are complaining that Man of Steel is “another origin story”.
I have no problems with this. Batman Begins was just “another origin story”.
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I think at this point, people know the origins of these characters so well that it’s starting to feel a little boring to keep hearing about it again and again. In Superman’s case you have both a very well known movies (that’s admittedly pretty old at this point) and a TV series that ran for ten years or something, both of which speant a large part telling his origin story of coming from another planet and growing up on a farm in Kansas (which isn’t the most interesting story, to be honset), do we really need to hear it again?
I loved Batman Begins, but it’s the same thing. We all know Batman’s origin, we don’t need to keep being told about it. There’s meant to be a rebooted Batman film in the works, and I have to ask, do we really need to see his parents being killed in it? Because that’s likely what we’ll be shown. I get that it’s an important part of his character, as Superman’s origin is to him, but it’s a part I and many others all ready know really well.
I’d like to see them explore other aspects, not just their childhoods or pre-superpowered lives,
that have defined these heroes,
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Commander.
So in all the dialogue, it was if the other characters were insisting on calling Shep by his full name.Edit:
Huge ME3 ending spoilers:
What annoyed me to a degree, was that at the end of ME3, when Shep’s name is being added to the board of KIA crew, how it only says ‘Commander Shepard’ it wasnt a pre rendered scene, so it wouldnt be too difficult to put the name you picked on the memorial.
It was just so impersonal.
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1st (male): Kermi Shepard
2nd (female): Kip Shepard
3rd (male): Matthew Shepard
4th (female): Amy ShepardHere’s the thing. I played as Kermi, finished it, started a 2nd playthrough. I started Kip as a renegade/insanity playthrough and never finished it. When ME2 came out I didn’t have a valid save, so I just played through with a new Shep, Matthew. When I finished as Matthew I went back and finished ME1 again as Kermi, and imported him to ME2, and finished ME2. I then went back and made Amy in ME1 and imported her to ME2. When ME3 came out I imported Kermi and finished ME3 as Kermi.
I now plan to buy all the ME3 DLC and jump back to a previous save to play as Kermi through the DLC and re-finish the game, and then I will import across Amy and finish the trilogy with her as my renegade. -
My red-headed no-nonsense hair-in-a-sensible-bun FemShep was called Zara. I always regretted calling her that though. Seemed a bit fanciful for such a strong lady.
Can’t remember what I called stick-up-his-butt-Paragon ManShep. I keep thinking Gavin but that wasn’t quite it. Something reliable-sounding though.
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Are you me? You just described my first Shepard. Down to the name.
I also didn’t quite like it, and I wanted to change her origin. So she just became the default name – which I can’t remember, but it probably Jane.My Bro Shep was the default male name, which is probably John.
I did make an Adrian, for giggles.
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Maximum Shepard.
I honestly wish I had a funny reason for doing so but nope. Just wanted to name the guy MAXIMUM SHEPARD.
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That’s very kind of you but I’m still working through BioShock Infinite at the moment! It’ll find a better home with somebody else. Thanks though Shane!
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Good morning DayTAY.
I am pleased to re-reveal to you something you’ve all been waiting for (page 11 repost).
the Third Annual Kindly Endowment of Surplus Terrific Unassuming Free Frivolity.
Or at least I would be, but it’s gone. To Page 12.
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Wait? I claimed The Bards Tale? Oh well guess I have play it and have fun now! *groans* Thanks a lot Shane!
Now, the TV is cheap in part because it doesn’t come with any bells and whistles. It’s just a straight up beautiful panel with some HDMI inputs. The simplicity is a clear rebuttal to Sony, Samsung, LG and the rest, and we’re willing to bet people don’t care about connected TV crap and 3D or even a brand name enough to spend $25,000 on a TV.
This. So so much this.
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If it displays stuff and has the necessary ports then, it’s all I want. I don’t need a TV that has 3D, hooks upto to the internet and all this stuff. It just needs to play nice with my other hardware and show TV channels.
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When I went to buy my last TV, which was just a Sharp Aquos 40″ LED, I ended up saving in excess of $500 by just saying no to the SmartTV shit. Why the fuck do I need another device that can browse the internet or stream YouTube? I have consoles, computers, phones and handhelds that do all of this, and I’m far more likely to use them than my TV for such a purpose.
It’s a TV. It plays TV shows and movies off my Boxee Box, and plays vidja gaems. All is right with the world.
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Yeah I couldnt believe when I was like, so reaaaally… whats the difference between sony this tv, and sony that, and the salesmans answer was the smart tv crap. And the price difference was ridiculous. Made my choice a lot easier.
Minecraft. Potaku. Let’s Plays. Yadda yadda. Insert link here.
Today’s been pretty rubbish for my confidence, so I’ve suddenly dipped into a bad mood. I’m gonna see if I can use that to get anywhere in Dark Souls, probably fail, curl up into a ball and cry, then soothe my soul with the ME3 Citadel DLC and go dancing with Garrus or something.
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Fap before you do any of these things, and your resounding success and subsequently improved mood is assured.
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Sadface.
I would be interested in the Potaku Cup and I have a headset, though I don’t have the teamspeak details or anything. Let me know when!
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PANTS TO-DO LIST:
1) MAKE LIST
2) CROSS OFF FIRST ITEM FROM LIST
3) REALISE YOU’VE ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED FIRST 2 THINGS ON LIST
4) TAKE THE REST OF THE DAY OFF-
Forgetting to add item 3.5) Add Kermitron to the list 😛
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That’s item 5.
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I think the to-do list has a flow error here 😛
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6) FIX TO-DO LIST FLOW PROBLEM
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Expanding on my post about Man of Steel being an origin story:
The last Superman origin story we had in movie form was in 1978 when Superman was released. It makes sense to do an origin story again while rebooting the franchise so long after this. It’s not like Spider-Man which was rebooted 10 years later with the EXACT same origin story.
In terms of story structure, if they were to launch into this new Superman movie without setting it up with the origin, the viewer would be confused as to the tone the movie is trying to achieve and also establish its characters motives. As comic readers, yes, we know the characters but you can’t assume that everyone does. Moviegoer Joe Smith may not know who Zod, Perry White and Jimmy Olsen are.
I have more points but my boss is looking at me. /o\
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I mentioned it on the other page, but we also had a 10 season TV show about Superman’s origin.
Also, while the average movie goer might not know who someone like Zod is, I think most of them will know that Superman’s an alien who was sent to Earth as a child and grew up in Kansas. At least I imagine most Americans would know that, and that’s the audience they’ll mainly be trying to appeal to.
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I agree. I’m probably your “Joe Smith” and even I know who and what Superman is, even before Smallville existed.
That said, it has been over 40 years since the first movie. There’s no real reason NOT to make a movie about his origins. People will go see it.
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Out of interest, Man of Steel is the first Superman movie that’s actually piqued my interest. Of course I’ve seen one or two of the old Christopher Reeve ones, but I’ve always found Superman to be really uninteresting. What’s his superpower? Oh, he’s just invincible and can fly.
Not sure why the new movie appeals to me, maybe because it looks like a different take? Even if that impression is only from the trailers.
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Superman has always bored me as a comic book hero because of his invulnerability, but I’ve never actually read the comics. Some of them apparently explore themes of being this godlike guardian of a planet full of creatures who seem to be doing their best to destroy themselves all the time. They explore the temptation to use his power to bring the earth into line under his benevolent tyranny.
That’s really the only aspect of Superman I find interesting in the long term. Once you make a movie about an invincible flying pugilist who shoots lasers from his eyes, there’s not a lot left to keep things interesting.
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I’m just sick of all superhero movies insisting on having that same annoying origin story structure. It’s really restrictive.
There are so many heroes out there that simply don’t need their origin story told. It’s basically not giving the audience any credit because it assumes that they have to have all of that stuff spelled out to them.
What origin do you really need for Superman? He flies, he’s strong, he has laser vision and he fights for truth, justice and The American Way ™. You can do a cold open that covers all of that, show the title screen and then get on with an actual damned plot.
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That’s one thing I really liked about The Incredible Hulk. It’s origin section was the opening credits sequence.
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The page I linked as a reply to the trailer was from All-Star Superman. The cartoon adaptation of it handled the origin with just as much elegance.
Most origin stories just don’t matter.
Do we care how Hal Jordan got his ring? We don’t need to see a cop get their badge at the start of every cop movie.
When I say it’s restrictive, I really mean it. Just how limited do these stories become if you’re forced to focus on the early days? Spiderman could do so much more but half the damned Spiderman movies are origin stories.
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I kind of agree with this. I worry that this one will be far too much origin, not enough story (lots of focus in the trailer on childhood scenes).
But something like Batman Begins really worked it together well, and made the origin an integral part of the story (the movie as it was could not have worked without being an origin story). I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt until it comes out, because it’s possible this might work the same way.
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It works with Batman because he didn’t get super powers, he grew into being Batman. That was solid character development. Superman (and the Xmen) is one of the few other heroes that you can go along that path. Otherwise it’s just “dude gets super powers, screws up, goes about undoing their error and saves New York. Again.”
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Calling it now, it’ll be trilogy, cause everything is.
Man of Steel – Zod
Man of 2teel – Lex
Man of Ste3l – Doomsday-
But then they’re not really milking the franchise properly. Assuming they’re successful enough, they’ll introduce a new lead actor, and do a continuation/reboot(that is so terrible it kills the movie franchise for another 10 years).
Superman: The M4n of Steel
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Then 5uperman: The Man of 5teel
6uperman
Man of S7eel
and 8uperman
Man of St99l (with the numbers spinning very cleverly to reveal e’s)
And then they can reboot it again \o/
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I keep reading Man of St99l as “Man of Stool”
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Post-retirement Supes.
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DARK. SOULDS.
TAKE THAT ORNSTEIN AND SMOUGH. BIGGIE AND SMALLS. SMOG AND HORNYSTEIN. YOU’RE DEAD.
Apparently Dark Souls works better if you go into the game already miserable.
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Also @shane
Try walking from the first Anor Londo bonfire to Biggie Smalls’ chamber with Pez’s Lesser Evil track playing. Freaking epic.
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Oh man. That sounds so COOL 😀
I only play at night with sound off, so will have to just imagine it.
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It was the kind of ‘I have no estus flasks left and only half a bar of health please let me roll in the right direction and stab him enough times’ adrenaline moment. Kinda cool.
Your article is…PENDING. I’m pacing them. 😛
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But afterwards, don’t you feel like a total Dark Souls rockstar?
Especially when your reward is a giant pair of boobs telling you you’re the Chosen One 😛Edit: Do you want a game/DVD?
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It was all I could do not to awkwardly punch the air above me when they fell. And then yeah, the boobs. :p
I appreciate your consistently generous offers, but I’m afraid none of the things on offer interest me this time around!
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Dude, the Souls games are made for ridiculous celebration. I remember finishing Demon’s Souls and I’m pretty sure I jumped off the couch and unleashed a tirade of swearbotting about 5 seconds long. Not that the last boss of Demon’s Souls is difficult, it’s actually quite easy – but that wasn’t the point.
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awww yeah…. just got sent the download link for Gay Paris’ new album!
cant wait to get home & crank that shit 😀
Halp!
I need to create a new username that isn’t related to anything I normally use.
Wat do?
For some reason I want to use a Food pun, but I don’t know if there is anything short and snappy enough to be a username.
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Chip Monk. It’s mystical and foody, and suggests a worship (or at least reverence) of food… and it’s reminiscent of
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My favourite Xbox Live gamertag I have seen is Ulterior Parsley, so it’s not exactly original, but I like the structure and I’ve wanted to create a similar amusing name that perfectly synchronises a subversive verb with a food, but I’ve never managed it.
Sneaky Radish? LAME.
Shadowcarrot? Potential.
Stealth Cabbage. OK BRAIN, YOU’RE FIRED.-
I bet that was one of the automatically generated Microsoft ones. They’d generate names exactly like that. A Starcraft caster used the name Cats Pajamas for a long while because it was one of those generated names (similarly Childish Gambino comes from a Wu Tang Clan name generator).
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When we were doing the shopping my son saw fish fingers and begged me to buy them.
Today when I told him he was having them for lunch he did a little dance and said “Yay! Fish fingers!”.
Just then he bit into one and exclaimed “EWWW! There’s fish inside!”. 😛
Soooo we should be receiving Ace Attorney on DVD today at work… has anyone watched it? I want it to be amazing. I really, really want it to be amazing. 😀
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The Japanese one! Honestly, I thought it was alright 😛 I just wish they focused on a single case instead of trying to fit more in.
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All right? So… best video game movie ever, by a long way?
Except for Super Mario Brothers, which is awesome, but that goes without saying.
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Only the most bodacious people still say radical.
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that’s some totally gnarly righteously tubular dialogue right there.
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I’ll put up calls for everyone to email me shortly. Only the ones marked “postage to be discussed” will need postage. I’ll have enough stamps to send out regular sized games at no cost to you 🙂
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I stand there awkwardly until it stops, and then pretend I’m okay with it by behaving almost normally.
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*Whispers*
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@sernobulus you may stand your tear ducts down.
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I’m afraid I’m going to refuse this one, Shane. If I’m going to ever play KotOR 2, it will be the PC version, with the restored content mod. I wish you the best of luck with passing this on to someone else.
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I’m going to seriously refuse, I’m sure a better home for it can be found.
Maybe.
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Set those tear ducts on standby. I’ve been trying to give this damn game away for at least eight months. And Halo for over a year. What is wrong with TAY?
So… Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers. Just released on 3DS in the US. Not announced for Europe but Atlus has some kind of EU publishing deal with NISA now so I imagine it’ll come…
It’s a remake of an old PS1 game and I’m completely unfamiliar, but it does sound kind of interesting. Anyone played this? Worth it?
So, Shane has to play games at night with the sound turned off?
Proposal: everyone who can donates a small amount of coin to fund a set of wireless headphones for him for his insane levels of generosity. As someone who has to do the same at night those things are indispensable.
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Thanks, but no. Headphones have a ten minute lifespan if left in the house. The kids are really bad with this stuff. Much appreciated though. Want another game? 😀
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Seriously man, it’s a waste of $$.
I’ll feel so bad when it gets broken, and it will get broken 🙁Really.
Take a collection for something else. Like charity. Or pay my mortgage.
I will also accept an advance copy of Dark Souls 2.
Or free things like book reviews.Also, I’m on toddler patrol at night, and wouldn’t be able to wear them anyway. Thanks though.
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You forget I have 2 small children as well and you have no idea of the destructive power of the youngest. There’s some seriously sturdy sets out there as mine can attest.
And it’s adorable that you think you have any say in this.
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You haven’t met my kids. One of them bit off one of the analogue sticks on a 360 control. Just took a chunk right out of it with his teeth.
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Mine killed a PS3 by assuming it was a money box.
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Technology has rights too. Don’t send it to a place filled with known abusers 😛
Seriously, though, please don’t. Getting all anxious @dc-style.
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@shane Fricken right I do!
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Don’t make them like they used to. When I was a kid, the Atari controllers ended up with a few chew marks, but they were still fine.
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everytime someone calls someone dickman I can’t help but think of the Dick man in Aqua Teen Hunger Force, who wants to make a spaceship out of dicks so he can return to dick planet.
You’re all too kind. Seriously, awesome folks, all of you.
But no.
If I end up with a set of headphones, I’ll give them away on TAY 😛
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SHUT THE FUCK UP AND ACCEPT OUR LOVE
ruffleberg … likes…. a … game.
O_O
Edit: um, I was making a joke. Didn’t mean to spark a personality conflict. Maybe should have said nothing :\
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I don’t know how to respond to this. My whole world has been upended. I think I need to lie down.
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Couldn’t you just have not, like, followed him?
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I did, after I told him what I thought of him. He’s just one example though. I found Twitter annoyed me too much. TAY is the only internet social outlet I really use anymore. The attitude here and the people are the best I’ve found anywhere. Social media seems to have this tendency to turn people into annoying versions of their real selves,
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Oh good, so you know when I call you a dickman that it comes from the heart. I really do think you’re a dickman.
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I think you’re an amazing, beautiful man.
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I haven’t been on Twitter in about 3 weeks. And it’s the best decision I’ve made in a long time.
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I started using Twitter after quitting Facebook, but all I was doing on Twitter was talking to TAYbies anyway.
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That’s really unnecessary.
Keep a straight face and tell me I’m wrong, I dare you.
If you want to have that opinion that’s fine, go nuts.
Jumping up in TAY and saying something like that, especially after the person involved has been tagged, ESPECIALLY after you said “The attitude and the people (on TAY) are the best I’ve found anywhere” is immature, crass, and hypocritical.
See my apology below.
untagged now for safety :\
Wrong about Ruffles being a world class fuckrod? Yes. You are wrong. He’s tongue-in-cheek about absolutely everything and actually quite funny. Especially when he’s joking about himself not liking games. I get that you might not like him, hell I used to not like him, but once you get to know him you can see the layers. He’s just misunderstood a fair bit.
Oh dear, reading back it looks like I think he’s an onion, like Shrek. 😛
I disagree, but I apologise again for making my feelings on the subject public. If it helps, I do feel a tad stupid right now.
Haha! I will say I met Ruffles at the camp and had many a lovely chat with him. He is a lovely lovely man, and will probably not appreciate me describing him as such but he is.
Cakes! Cakes have layers! Everybody loves cake!
…wait, did I just call myself fat?
He stinks?
Oh, he makes you cry?
Oh, you leave him out in the sun, he’ll get all brown, start sproutin’ little white hairs… 😛
He saved the rest of my taybie filled squad by going into hand to hand combat with a chrysalis, so he is alright I my books
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Still not the son of Fred Phelps who is the WBC leader…I wish he was though because the video is hilarious!
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Yeah. Still, if I was a 500 pound Fat Guy I’d be looming ominously round WBC rallies.
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Heck, screw the google glass, having a pair of sunglasses built into your head and being able to put them on at will would merit a purchase alone.
Be a fuckton more of ‘deal with it’ and ‘yeeaaaahhh’ moments in real life, though.
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Alright so I think I may potentially upset people with my comments above, so I promise not to make any derogatory comments about members of TAY, regardless of what I think. To clarify, that’s the first time I’ve done such a thing here. I love every single one of you, and am offering makeup hugs as compensation. Those I really like can expect a little more.
Apologies.
I won’t edit my comments though, because I feel like editing comments is cheating.
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Dickman
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Dealing with a lot of negativiy and namecalling throughout schoolling means that these days I respond pretty negatively when I see it. It’s nothing personal, and I don’t hold your actions against you.
I appreciate the fact that you offered an apology, and that you didn’t edit everything out.I’d accept the hug, but I heard you’re prone to fondling.
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I appreciate it.
I’m willing to just hold hands and gaze longingly into each others for a spell.
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Ok, fine.
PC version of “The Dig”.
Make it happen, Shane.
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Eh, I’m pretty good for games atm. That said, with all the Dragon Age talk I’m tempted to start a fresh run through that.
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@strange: My train will get in at South Brisbane at around 5:45pm and it’ll take about 15 mins or so to find you. So I’ll see you at that place around 6pm! 😀 I’ll send you a text message when I’m nearby!
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Okay. Guess I’d better start making myself look pretty for Epica then…it might take a while. 😛
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Also, will I have to mentally prepare myself to meet Mr. Strange? Haha! That’ll take some psyching up!
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Nope. You’ve already him anyway.
But he will be inside the venue protecting his barrier spot. He won’t come out at all until after the gig so you’re safe. 😛
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TWIST: The compliments are actually fish!
#Fishingforfish
DIRECTED BY M. NIGHT SHYAMALAMANALYMANALDLANAMAYSFIJACIOunaisdhauiscaixcnihbfsyu…
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Alright you broke you Tad.
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Haha…no. 😀
I guess it might read like that but I haven’t had a shower for a while and I need to cut my fringe so I can see.
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judging from your avatar might i suggest hair. 😛
the colon P makes it ok to say not nice things
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Imma do a dc, this was rather insensitive, albeit unintentional
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Cheating dickman.
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Monster.
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Always delivers.
Always.
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Totes already posted it and pimping unecessarily
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This is kinda like inception.
We need to go deeper.
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Thats what she said
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Is there a quick way to clear my notifications? I’ve had like 30 for as long as I can remember, and really could not be arsed going and clicking on each one.
Dammit. Tomb Raider arrives on the day a guest is arriving. I will have to stare at that box for a week. All the temptations to be rude and play a single player game in front of someone…
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Aww I erno, I actually seven seas-ed it and was thoroughly enjoying it. But decided the guilt was too much, ordered it for xbox, and put it on hold. Tres excited for it!
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well it’s very cinematic so it’ll be like you’re showing your guest a very long movie and you’ll keep them entertained, like a good host
Edit: 2 Phails in a row *Gutsoup fails TAY and must now do a make up test*
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Ok, I need people to post two more times so we reach a new page.
PAGE 12 IS TWIST PAGE. ALL OF MY COMMENTS WILL BE TWISTS.
Dear smart people/fit people
So I like walking up the hill and all cos fitness, but every time I do my right ankle kills and I can’t move it without feeling a lot of pain for like 30 minutes afterwards. Anyone know what’s up? Spending the day walking around should be enough of a “warm up” surely?
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Just pain. I can still stand and walk but if I can’t point my foot up at all. (That’s when it hurts, trying to point it up)
Feels fine now though.
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I’ve had something similar. I think it’s just from being generally unfit (in my case, not calling you unfit colon pee) and not stretching beforehand. I found it passes with regular exercise anyway, sometimes it’s just strengthening everything back up again and getting used to it.
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I think it’s just from being generally unfit
*ding ding ding!*
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My suggestion was going to be you might need to wrap it up/bind it, but if it’s just pain…
As red said, you might need to warm up a bit more. My other thought is that you might be putting more pressure on it than your left foot/leg and that could be part of what’s causing just that ankle to hurt and not the other.
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The road does slant to the side a bit, so I’m guessing that could be why? It’s a really shit road.
But basically, I’m just really unfit and wanted to use walking home to try and get a bit fitter.
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What Red said; stretch!
Failing that, maybe get some proper running shoes (if you don’t already).
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Stretching really isn’t that much effort at all once you get into the habit! I’ve found it’s pretty good to stretch in the morning anyway even if I’m not doing any exercise. Helps with computer-leg-cramps 😛
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Well it’s pretty much just stretching and making sure you have shoes that are comfortable to walk distances in (So not your work/school black shoes as an example), they look neat but they’re not to be used for cross country 🙂
Here’s what I’m planning on doing myself, keeping my work shoes here at work, and wear my runners to and from the office, so I can easily get changed when I get in every morning and change back before going home.-
I probably should’ve mentioned this before. I wear Adidas runners to school, so I think the shoes are good for walking! I’ll try stretching a bit next time though.
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Sounds like tendinitis. I used to (and still do) get pain like this if I walk too much without orthotics and good shoes. If you’re always getting it, go to a doctor and get a referral to a podiatrist.
Assuming you’re normally sitting down a lot, you should try stretching our your calves (a step is good for this, stand with the toes of one foot on the step, the other foot hanging loose off the edge, then let your heel drop), hamstrings and shins (try kneeling for a bit with your feet under yourself).
Where in the ankle is it hurting? Is it hurting all the time or just after you exercise? Does it happen if you walk long distances anywhere, or just when you walk up or down a specific hill?
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The only time it happens is after walking up the hill. It’s 1km exactly (according to google maps) from the law building where I came from today 100% uphill. I can run, jog, walk whatever any other time and feel fine.
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SPAMTOD ACTIVATED
EDIT: I DECLARE PAGE 12 THE “TWIST PAGE”
Twist: SpamTod is actually just Tadmod! DUN DUN DUUUUUN!
Good aftermorning DayTAY.
I am pleased to re-reveal to you something you’ve all been waiting for (page 12 repost).
the Third Annual Kindly Endowment of Surplus Terrific Unassuming Free Frivolity.
Has moseyed on to page 13.
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TWIST: Shane is actually a thief who stole these games and DVD’s and is now distributing them, Robin Hood style -
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Hey cool. Stuff is cool! I check TAY for the first time in a while and see that you’re in fact giving away stuff!
I wouldn’t mind Scrubs season 3, please!
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@tadmod TWIST: Just before taking his first bite of food on his
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He doesn’t want to leave the house to buy food, and he already ate the dust under the fridge. Obviously.
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If he doesn’t, get your mum voice* on and command him to eat everything on his plate.
*Every mother I’ve ever encountered has a ‘mum voice’.
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You may have to chuck a Dantrum (TM)
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I have a challenge for TAY.
EDIT FREE THURSDAY
Midnight to midnight tomorrow, not a single edit from any one.
It’s to support, uh, cancer in baby Guatemalan rabbits? Yes. That’ll do.
You don’t hate baby Guatemalan rabbits do you?
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I don’t like this idea. How am I supposed to keep track of who’s claimed what in my giveaway?
Edit: I’m not sure I got my point across, so I edited this sentence in.
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People used to survive without running water too. But I don’t think that’s an excuse not to shower.
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This is because I told you I haven’t showered for a while, isn’t it? 😛
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I didn’t think you’d be able to do it.
Bet if it was baby Australian rabbits you would.
Racist.
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He’s never around when needed. He’s like the reverse Superman.
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You should edit. Double posts are infuriating.
Edit: @sughly’s column of pee.
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I only edit to remove typos or my borderline dyslexic habit of just not typing entire words sometimes. I accept your challenge.
I say if @dc can manage the day without an edit we are all entitled to a @dc congratulatory spear tackle each.
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Nope, not even.Your dyslexia will be on display for all. If mine will be, then so will yours.Realised you were accepting challenge and this is redundant. Hmmmmm… moving on…
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Good luck with that.
I tried to give away free tickets to a show and nobody wanted them.
They were FREE! You don’t even have to be into the band if they’re free. 😛-
Technically Shane’s giveaway is easier since it gets posted to you and you don’t even have to leave the house 😀
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Well then @shane is a liar. The games aren’t “fucking free” at all. Some of them have “fucking”.
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Better sales pitch: free fucking games.
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OH I GET THE JOKE NOW.
Seems like it wooshed past most people’s heads 😛
Deliveryulus
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maybe if you put a price tag on them people would steal them, my parents once tried to give away a couch on the curb, no one took it, so they put $10 on it and it vanished.
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I once left a couch in front of my house with a “free” sign on it. Sat there for a week until the sign fell off. The next day, a guy knocked on the door to ask how much.
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Free naked picture of Shane with his smouldering eyes in his sexy new specs with every item.
\o/
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I think everyone missed my terrible joke. Shane said “fucking free” which could imply that the game has no sex in it.
I’m just gonna go sit in the corner and cry for a while.
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Then I guess we need to find out the age of consent for Guatemalan Rabbits, to see if it’s okay.
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Damned Extraterritorial Guatemalans!
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Man, Harli is such a lurker. I mentioned #HashtagsForHarli on the previous page and she replied!
EDIT: Commas are important!
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She does that. I used to think that it was because she had a psychic sense, but now I think she’s just a creepy stalker.
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That is also a feasible option.
Also, terrifying. Not specifically because it’s Harli, just the idea of a psychic creepy stalker.
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Whoohoo, home time, thanks TAY you’ve helped me maintain sanity during a very boring work day.
*hugs all those willing, high fives the rest, even if unwilling*
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If you’re going to do it properly, you need to give it a little squeeze, that attempt was just sad.
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It’s okay, he’s a jerk. You can make it up by rubbing his head repeatedly. His sweet, soft head. So soft.
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How is it so soft!?!?
Are you and @rize coming up this weekend? We can all stroke it in a circle.
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That @rize guy. I hear he’s a team player!
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At the moment, mostly due to costs, I don’t think I can.
Everyone I’ve met so far that works in the wedding industry is an arsehole. They also charge a premium if you say the word “wedding”.
Seriously, you say “Brithday event booking for 100 people”, they say “$100”. You say “Wedding event for 100 people” they say “$800, not including staff”.
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But you’ll get the money I owe you, that you’d forgotten about. You’re basically earning money!
Edit: Get the money that I will give you regardless. Just get it… sooner? Maybe.
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This guy gets it
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So I just watched through the second video in that Mewtwo magical girl article thingy, and it’s got me asking a few questions.
Questions like “why did I just spend nearly 4 minutes watching Magical Girl Transformation Sequences from Sailor Moon?”
And “Is this somehow even less manly than my trips up to Sydney to see musicals?”
Also the requisite “What the hell am I doing with my life?”
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Have you acted out the whole transforming sequence while drunk and having friends shower you in ribbons and glitter while doing so?
No?
You’re cool.
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Important question: which transformation sequence?
(I can neither confirm nor deny that I have seen three seasons of that show)
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Had ta’ stick to the classic, straight up Moon Prism Power. Woulda’ gone Moon Cosmic Power, but I was intoxicated so pulling that off would’a been crazy.
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@negativezero
I forgot to reply before because I was going to try it out first, but massive thanks for your help with my java thing 😀 That honestly never occurred to me, but it’s working now.
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No worries. I remembered hitting almost the exact same issue reading input in Java when I was doing CompSci at University. Haven’t done much Java since then, glad it helped.
So I just wrote a 2,700 word letter.. Now to hand write it. YAY FUN TIMES! Least I get to improve my handwriting.
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Haha, much rather write it out by hand, the personal touch is something I like. Plus I have the spare time.. I’m halfway through writing out the second page now haha.
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Becoming slightly perturbed that the $1400-odd dollar rig I threw together on the weekend as a server/LAN box is doing almost as well as my main rig. I won’t boast how much I’ve spent on my main rig, but let’s just say I’m not pleased.
Just quietly, fuck Optus.
Haven’t been with them for over 10 years. Tonight I get a phone call from them claiming I owe them $800. Turns out that out of the blue they have defaulted me and are starting to harass me for money.
Fairly sure I don’t owe them squat.
Not so quietly, FUCK OPTUS.
So, I was playing dota, when suddenly:
http://i.imgur.com/J3hQvYj.jpg
A wild @grandmasterbfunk appeared!
TWIST: GMaster is actuall Valve
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I know you’re on opposite teams and all, but I like that it took nearly 31 minutes for you to notice.
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TAD!
You should add me on Steam. So should @grandmasterbfunk, because apparently I couldn’t find either of you.
Is the Steam search function borked, or am I slightly backwards?-
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yeah the friend searcher is totally messed right now.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/grandmasterbfunk
add me 😉
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it took me a while tilli saw him comment, and i thought.
“no way, thats just someone with the same name!”
but then i saw the clubs and i knew.
and now for a shot from my perspective 😛
http://i.imgur.com/7MJBfxZ.jpgTWIST: I’m stalking Tad-
All I got from that picture was that our slard was 0/6/1… seriously…
But yeah, well played by you guys. We made some pretty heavy blunders, but honestly – had we had a fifth player – we would have had a fighting chance :\
TWIST: I’m actually Grandmaster B-Funk and I’m stalking myself-
at least it wasn’t a total demolish, you guys did better early game, also unlucky that i drafted Nyx, who’s probably one of my best heroes 😛
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So, Injustice is pretty awesome so far.
Rather enjoying the story, and somehow managing to keep track of what’s going on.
My favourite characters to play so far have been Aquaman and Deathstroke.
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You need to play as Lex Luthor, so that at the end of every match you can scream “ME, LEX LUTHOR!“
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from the demo, he appeared to be a major keep away character.
those damn combo stopping laser balls are annoying as heck.
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In the teachers’ diary thingy I have for work, it has random facts. One of them mentioned Emperor Jimu.
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Hai Jimu, how goes Guacamelee? I would have finished it but I got OCD about looking for everything.
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Really? I found em all by myself except one that I needed slight help with. I was on the exact track, I just couldn’t get in cos it’s an odd use of mechanics.
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K-Pop is weird.
I was going to say “that is all” after that but I accidentally typed it as K-Poop, so I just wanted to throw that in there, rendering “that is all” inaccurate.
Thanks for having my back, peeps.
If i had a heart, it would be breaking right now from overwhelming happiness. But i don’t. Sorry about that.
Any discussion about my character that doesn’t begin with the general notion of “He is a Godking” is flawed. And i think we’ve proven that today.
You guys are awesome.
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There are plenty on that list i’d like, but i already have way too many and no time to play them. They wont just be sitting on my shelf for months if someone else has them.
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Forget everything i said before.
Dead Space 2 if you wouldn’t mind.
My brother would like that.
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You are literally worse than Hitler.
LITERALLY.
And I mean literally as in literally, not as in exaggeration.Hell, you’re even more eviler than Skeletor.
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I know, the salt and vinegar ones were so tasty…
Oh, you mean the person?
Well, he’s pretty damn awesome as well.
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STOP BEING HILARIOUS, UGH.
I swear all I do is upvote these days.
Upvote and spam-post in the evenings.
I miss dayTAY!
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STOP LYING ABOUT US, UGH!
Honestly, you’re worse than D.C..
Just upvoting everything, spamming all the timeI can’t think of what to put on this line!
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I meant D.C. you bum 😛
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Oh. Well, Deece should know that as well.
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Sure, if you want to take the risk that the plane will actually be there. There’s a reason we don’t sell Tiger for any reason. Its just not worth the hassle if and (more likely) when things go wrong with them
Puff puff puff.
ZOMBIES, RUN!
https://www.zombiesrungame.com/FreezeSPreston/
Knocked another 30 seconds off. Not as good as the previous 2 minutes but still an improvement. I feel even better about it considering I’m still sore from the last run and I spent half the day today eating KFC, drinking cider and watching Metalocalypse….. not entirely proud of doing that :S
People wonder why I’m introverted.
I think I may have simply receded due to inability or lack of options regarding these discussions.
Then again, I could potentially be externalizing blame in order to further justify my inversely proportionate contributions with my ever-growing alcoholism.
Food for thought.
I’m not actually an alcoholic, but it seems to be a running joke, so I’m going to keep running 😀
I just finished God of war ascension. That makes it 3 games finished this year. The other two are DmC and Tomb Raider. Wooo \o/
The game had its moments but overall it was an unnecessary entry in my opinion. No questions were answered and the developer’s promise of an emotional tale was just marketing speak. There was not enough Linda Hunt(the narrator) either. I liked her voice in the past games.
It wasn’t all bad though, the game looked great-some of the fire effects and lighting were great.
I liked the new Oath stone of orkos ability too.
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You know what, I love the franchise but you might be right. Kratos’ story ended in 3 and Ascension did nothing for the series. If I need more I can go back to the other 5 games. Sony Santa Monica are really talented and they should do something new.
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Hey.
Here’s a really cool* The Last of Us Themed Pencil Holder.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.157013031133671.1073741836.144829249018716&type=1
Also if you ‘like’ his facebook page it increases my chance of winning one. Not that I’m saying you should, but it’d be nice.
*(HOLY SHIT THIS IS A REALLY AMAZING)
Also Antichamber is $10. Yay/nay?
Strange is awesome. We went to a place called P.J.’s Steaks and got Cheese Steaks. It was good eating. Hope you have fun at Epica, my pal! Also, I was pretty damn nervous the whole night for some reason. Haha!
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You were waiting for her to knock you out and forcibly drag you to the concert that you totally should have gone to
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I wouldn’t have been able to any ways, last train of the night would’ve been when the concert was still on.
At one point Mr. Strange was standing on one side of the road and I was standing on the other side of the road. I texted Strange to talk about the scary looking Epica fans lining up and she told me one of them was her husband. XD
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You were nervous because I’m a bully. Oh and because I was dressed all in black like the”scary people”. 😛
Had fun at a friend’s birthday tonight. Laser tag followed by Maccas. Tried the Smoky Texan burger which was pretty good.
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Why eat something that tastes like the box it came in?
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Turns out I need to check my other email address more often. FFXIV Realm Reborn beta invite! \o/ Well, I’m entitled to one, being a legacy account holder and all, but still very cool.
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I also got one…
Unless Square Enix asks in which case I have no idea what you’re talking about *taps nose*
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NIGHTTAY!
Whatta day, huh? Good to get back to normal.
Normal being the Third Annual Kindly Endowment of Surplus Terrific Unassuming Free Frivolity (page 13 edition – halfway there!).
Alas, normality is a dream. Chaos is the only way forward. To Page 14!
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That leaves Mad Men season 2. Okay, we can do that 🙂
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NOPE! >:|
(Thanks though. :P)
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Nope, honestly not a fan of Romero. *folds arms stubbornly*
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Okay, I have to ask: What is this “dickman” thing that is popping up all over the place here in TAY? I genuinely can’t figure it out.
Is it like a brosult, like “hey man, you’re all about dick, but that’s cool because we’re still all up in friendship here. Dickman” ?
Or is it more a redundancy-laden tautology, like “You’re a man, you have a dick. Dickman” ?
Or something else?
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Same here! I’ve just been assuming it was an odd insult written somewhere here on Kotaku. Not sure though, I think it appeared last week?
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It started with me wishing happy birthday to @freezespreston and @sughly, I believe. They received a caps-laden birthday message referring to them as ‘glorious dickmen’.
You’re welcome.
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Yay! Virus gets Download merch even though he’s not going to be there ^_^ just organised with Kat for a Download, Stone Sour & Slipknot shirt! She said too easy, my day just keeps getting better.
Dark Souls \o/
Joined cat covenant. Bought the items. Betrayed cat covenant. Got ninja ring. It was a good night.
So tonight I went out with Mr and Mrs Oliver and another friend to an Indian restaurant for tea. Was pretty good! Really friggen expensive, but good.
Oh and I appear to have lost my debit card. I have no idea when or where, but thankfully nobody’s gone and used it. My memory is getting bad (old man Ben J) and I can’t even really remember where I’ve been these past few days to know where I could have lost it!
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Apparently those are real 😛 But still no!
I more than likely threw it in the wash, lol.
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When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth?
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I’m really not following here 😛
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Don’t mind me, I’m just over stimulated from going outside.
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DC IS DRUNK!!
No? Okay 🙁
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@benj
Don’t be silly, D.C. doesn’t drink, not since THE INCIDENT which is also the reason he doesn’t drive(both happened in the same year, so I’m lumping them into one).
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Last update. Didn’t get a grant I was applying for. Guess we’re eating kitty litter this week.
Not really.
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In other (unrelated) news, I am rescinding all offers of free games, because apparently karma is a crock 😛
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Amen, my friend.
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I want to touch your hand.
In a shaking gesture.
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Just finished Pokemon Conquest
Did it take them five minutes to write this story? and damn you Jigglypuff why are you so worthless.
Days are sooo busy lately. I’m going to bed early again so I can get up early and finish this stupid assignment.
I say busy like it’s a bad thing, but the past whole week really has been awesome. My grades would be awesome if I spent even a quarter of that time on studying 😛
Come and get a free, free game!
You could buy them, but it’s not the same.
At these prices, they won’t last;
So make your choice, and make it fast.
When the world is cold and wet and mean
You might be glad to have on your screen
A reminder that it’s not all bleak;
But you will not get this chance next week.
There is indeed a strict time limit
(as with all good things) so get on in it.
Get all the games, and soothe your pain
Sincerely TAY, from your friend.
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I just sang that out loud. I don’t know if it was supposed to be to a tune, but that didn’t stop me.
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Please come on guys, take a game.
If @shane keeps pleading, I’ll go insane.
I did my bit, now you do yours,
@dc should too, but he’s never indoors.
Still, I can’t excuse it,
I’m seriously going to lose it,
Take a fucking game already, else I’ll punch your face and bruise it.-
TWIST: I can’t punch my way out of a wet paper bag. I may have to try to sneakily apply oddly coloured makeup to your face in an attempt to make it appear as if I assaulted you. Uhh, yeah.@tadmod
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Your pleading ways, they get annoying,
I just kid, I’m only toying,
rhyming can be quite a bitch,
so don’t you chuck a hissy fit(ch).
Look, I know that was quite bad,
a rhyme so poor it makes me sad,
but this is what you drive me to,
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Not at all my friend, I’m sorry!
I rhymed in jest, both quite poorly…
Perhaps I should exhibit tact,
and blame sleep-dep, that’s a fact.
Please accept my apologies good sir,
I meant to cause laughter, not a stir.
And with these words I shall retreat
to greener pastures, in the land of sleep.
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I’ll take you up on that offer. As soon as I arrive in time for the game I want.
(damn you @scree, damn you ) :p
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Oh no. I didn’t mean to start one of these.
It’s yours, fair & square.
God speed (or sumsuch)😀
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Where’s the best spot to watch Ninty direct?
I remember having trouble with the link Ninty provided last time.
http://microsite.nintendo-europe.com/nintendo_direct/nal/?12
That’s what Vooks is using, it goes via the Ustream page(which may be better)
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… Well, that’s a reply fail and a half…
@jimu
The actual Ustream page is: http://www.ustream.tv/NintendoUK
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Thanks 😀
They better announce Majora’s Mask and some other shit I like. Screw everyone else! :p
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http://www.siliconera.com/2013/04/16/final-fantasy-versus-xiii-news-might-not-be-too-far-off/
Wow, that is an interesting answer.
If the delay was cause by a fly in a typewriter (Brazil) then I will be shocked and appauled
Monster Hunter stuffs:
@fled – sorry I was so brief but typing on the Wii U gamepad sucks and the character limit sucks too 😛
(@shiggyninty you get a tag too)
Basically I was saying that you should make sets based on which skills they have. You can press Y to view them and see a description if you highlight them. Sometimes you’ll get a description, sometimes you won’t :P, it’s a bit shit, but you can just look them up online.
I’m sure you guys know how skills work but if you don’t… basically certain things (armour, talismans, decorations) will give you + or – numbers towards a certain skill. For example: a Wroggi Head armour might give you +1 Sharpness. Pressing Y to view the skillwill show that +10 of the Sharpness skill will give you the benefit “Razor Sharp” while -10 will give you “Blunt Edge”. So until you reach either of those thresholds, it’s useless. +9 towards the Sharpness skill will give you nothing at all.
This is why it’s better to use complete sets early on because they’ll have the same skills. If you’re mixing them it’s much harder to get the skills you want.
However, you can use Talismans (also known as Charms) or set Decorations to help reach a threshold (or get out of a negative one). So if you’re on -10 Blunt Edge, just make and use a Sharpness Decoration, or use a Sharpness Charm so you’re not longer on -10.
As for Low Armour sets, don’t worry too much about completing them as there’s High Rank and G Rank armour sets which have better skills and much better defence. Right now in G Rank, I mix and match with some G Rank armour but still stick with sets. Charms are your main tool for skills in the end-game 😀
I was all set to give myself a free pass on doing a page tonight, but revoked it at bedtime (I am apparently a fickle and quite harsh taskmaster). Now it’s done and I’m really extremely tired 😛
Epica were so damn amazing. Incredibly good to see them with their proper keyboardist this time, too. He has this awesome swivel keyboard stand and is so much fun to watch. Simone Simons is beyond beautiful, I almost couldn’t take my eyes off her. Oh, and pretty sure she’s three or four months pregnant! The band were all obviously enjoying themselves which is always awesome, and they just entertain so well.
When I got there after dinner with @dc (hi @dc! 😛 ) I went up the front to say hi to Mr. Strange and let him know I was there and he made me stay up the front on the barrier in front of him because apparently Isaac (a guitarist from Epica) remembered meeting me on 70K and wanted to see me. But then when the band came on and Isaac looked at me I got all embarrassed and couldn’t look at him for the rest of the night unless he was looking elsewhere. 😛
Oh and I got Simone’s setlist. 😀
Twitter Nintendo Direct spoilers!
I think I got some surprise hype killed by seeing some stuff Tweeted D:
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FUCKING AYE MATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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:OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CLOSER RELEASE DATE THAN EXPECTED
EDIT: This is the point where I get hype for another thing!
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THIS IS EVERYTHING I’VE FUCKING WANTED FUCKFUASIDBAJKBDA FUCK FUIMG OGMOMGMGOMO GHG OMOGH AJZJIZZZZZZZZZ JIZJIZ JIZI JZIJ IJZIJIJZZZZ JIZZZZZZZZZZZ
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Do you enjoy my vague non spoilery hype?
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there was really only one fairly hype announcement
New Zelda on 3DS based on A Link to the Past? YES PLEASE!
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I couldn’t care less. I never even did the boss rush in OoT. Just happy to have a portable update.
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And @jimu
They weren’t that bad but compared to others, they were complete ass
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I finished Phantom…I didn’t finish Twilight.
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Compared to other 2D Zelda games. 3D and 2D Zeldas are pretty different.
They’ve got nothing on A Link to the Past, Link’s Awakening, Oracle of Ages/Seasons and even Minish Cap.
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I love Link’s Awakening, Wind Waker and Majora’s Mask. They are my favourites.
I think the best is Ocarina.I played LttP too late, when it hit Advance, just didn’t do it for me, no idea why I didn’t track it down after playing LA back in the 16 bit era. Guess I was busy Spider-Manning.
Minish Cap I finished in 4 days and took it back to EB, I liked it, but it was such a pushover.
Oracle of Ages/Seasons I enjoy but have never got around to finishing, the pacing is off in those games for my tastes. I seem to lose interest.Zelda, like Final Fantasy, is one of those series I feel always wanted to be 3D and was improved by the move more than some other games. Things didn’t have to drastically be reinvented for it to move into 3D, you know?
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See @jimu, you’re clearly mad 😛
@doc_what just has meaty man-hands and couldn’t see the screen, for all he know it was better than LttP :p
Oh wait, Spirit Tracks?
Oh no, that was bullshit. Why was the train on the water? I don’t even…
@doc_what
I’m sick of being mad, why can’t it be minority rules for once, then everyone else can be mad!
Unrelated Ninty Direct hype:
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD PS+ GAMES!
I’m tired and need sleep.
PLEASE DON’T HURT ME TOO MUCH FOR THIS.
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VIRTUE’S LAST REWARD IS FREE ON PS PLUS?!?!
EVERYONE ON TAY THAT HAS A VITA AND PLUS NEEDS THAT GAME!
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Shin Megami Tensei IV
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So, the game budget has been shuffled around again.
Things have moved lower on the list. Sorry Fire Emblem Awakening, and you looked pretty fun too.
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I would have taken it, but collector me beats cheap me for taking on coverless games.
It’s a KRPG, yeah?
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I expect Shane is going to do a “I have no idea, I’ve never played it” post but yes, it’s a KRPG 🙂
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Ha! Shows what you know.
Edit: Even though you’re right – I haven’t played it
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Edit: I’ve made the switch on the list, but I’m going to remove myself from any future discussions or duels to the death until this is sorted 😛
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@sughly @negativezero
I presume that you are sleeping, but when you awaken and hear the news…
SQueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Yeeeeeeeeeeeah, no.
Total reverse of you Zelda zombies.I’m keen but BD:FF kills it by far.
#JRPGzombie
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I can see who downvote when Im hom @doc_what >:-(
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IT WAS ME! BECAUSE ZELDA > BRAVELY FLYING FAIRY DEFAULTS
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I like you, much better than that schmuck Jimu.
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You jerks are bullies! I reserve the right to opinionate in my direction!!!
Bastards!
@greenius
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I’m just saying that Bravely Default is kind of expected news. Lttp2 is not.
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Hmmmm, yes and no. The new bit is the LttP setting otherwise we knew.
But yeas, I standerun
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Ninty at E3
“Now, we’ve shown a lot of new sequels to our most beloved franchises.. SO FOR E3 HERE’S A FUCKTON OF NEW IPS YEAEAEAEAEAEAEAEAEA”
What’s scary is that this is plausible.
Okay, why do some of the new 3DS games, specifically Mario & Luigi and Yoshi’s Island have that weird early 3D SNES bad look?
M&L doesn’t look too bad but I think the other one looks pretty horrid considering how good the previous ones looked :/. I really don’t know why the went for this look other than trying to be “retro” or different but there’s another game which has a much better different look (Yoshi Yarn thingy :D)
On the other hand, the new Zelda looks pretty good! They updated classic graphics rather than taking a step back, similar to what DKCR did.
I know graphics aren’t a huge deal but I love great visual design and presentation and I think the new Yoshi’s Island looks baaaaad
I’m probably the only one who thinks this 😛
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Really I didn’t get that at all with the Mario and Luigi preview.
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Yoshi looks and sounds bad.
Yoshi Island on SNES was an amazing graphiced game, people didn’t get it. I actually had a guy in high school tell me it had “shit graphics”.
I was shocked, I couldn’t believe someone couldn’t see the hard work that had gone in to make it look drawn in crayon.
Last gen we had Mario Bros 1, it was as square as fuck!Also, Yoshi used to sound different, less…feminine(?) I reminded me of a record scratch. I miss the SNES sounding Yoshi.
That new game looks shithouse. Really dissapointed. And also, gameplay looks like it’s adding nothing new at all, what’s the point?
Good Freakin morning, TAY.
Without further faffing around, the Third Annual Kindly Endowment of Surplus Terrific Unassuming Free Frivolity (page 14 edition – over halfway there!).
Page 14 is now closed for business. Rack off.
Edit: I have thought about it, and decided that I don’t support cancer in baby Guatemalan bunnies, and therefore will be editing all my posts today.
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Why do you have disc onlys and why do you have NTSC games? I know you had a modded PS2 but does that mean you imported them?
Jus wonderan, Curius
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Yep, when I bought my PS3, I thought I was getting a backwards-compatible one (damn fraudulent listing) and it was from the US, because I wanted to collect all the old PS1 Final Fantasy games and ICO/SotC without spending a trillion dollars on PAL versions. So they’re imported. (Edit: and even though I discovered that I can play them on my Hey-This-Is-Modded! PS2, I never have. So out the door they go!)
The disc only games are various bargains I’ve picked up around the place, where the person I got the game from had evidently chucked everything but the disc (to store them in a CD folder I suppose).
EDIT: I’m putting you down for a game.
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Antichamber please. 😛
Which I cam totally afford but I’m being a cheapass so don’t actually buy it without expecting money thrown in your face.
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That’s hardly a helpful attitude.
Edit: It’s really not.
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…thanks.
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Ugh, ThinksHesTooCoolForShanesGamesius.
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Are you sure? Is there something else in the list you’re interested in? @jimu, what say you?
Edited: for the bunnies.
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Well, I think he actually wants it where as I was interested. So yeah, I’m sure. I can always get it off ebay if I really feel the need =P Um, is magna carta NTSC?
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You’re special, man. Kat thinks so.
Cue <3 <3 <3 etc 😛*runs away before distraction is noted*
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Rofl.
Pfft. she doesn’t think it. She actively shows it 😛
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Last Amazon shipment from Europe took 8 business days. A week later, Monster Hunter from OGS took 7 business days. Much of a muchness.
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For my 3DS, getting it via their fastest shipping was like 2 quid more than standard. So I opted for that. But yeah, maybe I’ll grab it from OGS.
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Bastion and/or Journey soundtrack makes everything better.
TRANSISTOR HYPE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTik6sYT_BE
Dammit @shane, it’s no-edit Thursday, not edit everything Thursday. And after all that time I spent last night convincing @dc to participate, you’ve now given him an excuse not to. >:|
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But Freeze said that no-edit Thursday was in support of cancer in bunnies. I don’t support that. I think cancer should leave the cute little bunnies alone.
Edit: This things I believe.
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Bunnies are pests. They even had to build the Great Wall of China to stop those malicious fluffy things. D:
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I will only edit upwards today. Only ever-increasing posts. LIKE BUNNIES.
Edit: for the bunnies.
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HAVE YOU NO HEART STRANGE?!?!?
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Edit: For. The. Bunnies.
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Edit: RIP Hoppy and Cuddles…. 🙁
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I’m trying to remember, I don’t think I have actually ever eaten rabbit, not even stew
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Is there a store where all the old ladies go to buy the same overpowering chalky smelling perfume? I envision a giant warehouse full of the same bottle, millions of them stacked high with a mile long line of old ladies getting given their ration.
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As an old lady myself I feel I am quite qualified to tell you that yes, this giant warehouse exists. But shhhh! It’s a secret. 😛
AMAZEBALLS…. So, Im officially joining the nerd herd…. Just ordered my glasses… quite funny, the only frame that i liked was $450, without lenses (frame only). I managed to order them online from the UK for $145 delivered WITH lenses. \o/
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TELL ME YOUR SECRETS. I spent $350 at specsavers a couple of weeks ago on some budget as hell frames.
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I got two pairs of glasses and paid $0. NO GAP, BABY.
Edit: Private health insurance. Oh yeah.
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I don’t have health cover. It’s something I’m going to investigate before EOFY since I turn 31 in December, but my glasses just couldn’t wait.
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Bravely Default? AWESOME!!!
Zelda: Link to the Past 2???? HIWD VHJ DKHQWEM DADQWHJHIOQWDOPQWDJKJH QEDJNEHBEJ NKUGTR UNVLERMFVN NEDJNEDNU DEBN DEMKD JDEND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Gentleman What?! Will I get to see you on Saturday night? I’m only going so I can see real TAYbies and not just that traitor @anonymous_pessimist. 😛
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If you see Pez, touch his bottom for me and tell him I miss him. Also, that I’m OK with him experimenting with ladies just to affirm his undying love for me.
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Dead or Alive 5 Plus DLC: Private Getaway Set ($16.99) – Get all 12 Hot Getaway costumes and a set of sexy videos of all the ladies of Dead or Alive!
People need to stop pretending DoA is a fighter. Nothing wrong with boobs, but a good fighter it’s not.
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I’ve actually always liked DoA’s grappling and counter system on a technical level. I’m not any kind of fighting game expert so I don’t really understand complex layers of balancing etc that it seems you have to have programmed into your brain to be able to competitively play Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat or Tekken or whatever. I just really like DoA and still would even if there were no gravity-defying boobs and skirts.
I would also probably like Soul Calibur more if I didn’t suck at it, and this has nothing to do with elephantitis that seems to have been increasingly crippling Ivy’s chest region for the past 10 years.
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Soul Calibur’s lost it’s way trying to chase the fighting game expert market though. Threw away half the (admittedly bloated) cast in V and added daft mechanics that get in the way.
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Oh. The last one I played was 2 or 3 back on the PS2. It was before the one that has Yoda and Darth Vader.
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3 was PS2 exclusive. You’d know if you played 2 on PS2 because it had that old guy from Tekken in it.
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I don’t really know Tekken, but I’m pretty sure it was SC2.
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If I had to sum up the fighting in DoA in one word, that one word would be:
Boobs.
If I had to use another, it’d be:
Wonky
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Meanwhile if I had to sum up street fighter in one word it would be:
Boring
I enjoy DoA a lot because of how it plays, not because of how ridiculously bouncy the boobs are. It’s actually fun, which few of the so-called ‘deep’ and ‘balanced’ games for ‘pros’ are.
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I don’t get it too, but there are fans out there of the system.
Hell, if Mortal Kombat can be in pro tournaments then DoA can.
This is my write-up of last night if anyone’s interested. http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-220/comment-page-13/#comment-1171478
Because I’m a lady I refrained from mentioning the part where @dc tried to show me his chest…. 😛
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Here’s a cute picture from last night of her with Isaac. And the bump of a mini Simone/Oliver. 😀
https://twitter.com/Strangist/status/324531882366738432/photo/1All the sexier ones of her are on my husband’s facebook so I can’t really link them. 😛
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SEE! Told you it was a date! 😛
Edit: refraining from bunny-mentions here, lest folks get the wrong idea.
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OK, OK. I wll take Star Ocean, thank you @scree
So @shane, what’s the deal with postage? What came in this pack?
Also, what system was this again? (I have both, don’t worry) 🙂
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http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8044/8104829346_04c039cf4c_z.jpg
Is it this digi-pak with art cards?
I may have just soiled myself…
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Yeah, that’s what it looks like. No idea what’s in it. Condition isn’t quite as good as that, either. But that’s the one.
Edit: Go change your pants.
Edit 2: It’s a 360 game.-
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Stalkius.
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It’s all he talks about!
Mai Xbawks brok so I play PSFreee
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Injustice, I am surprised by how much I am actually enjoying this game.
Though I probably should learn how to play properly, not just mash buttons while giggling hysterically.
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Haven’t gotten around to playing the new MK yet, but plenty of people are saying it is much the same, just without multiple ninjas.
Tried three different game modes so far, and really enjoyed them.
Plus the story itself isn’t half bad.-
The story is the main attraction in MK, you stay for the 100s of challenges.
Really well-balanced game, content-wise.
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@dc isn’t here yet and @redartifice is apparently Spanish or something, so..
@spaghett’s last played song game go!
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I think it might be my favourite of their songs. Except maybe Mace Spray. Mace Spray is so good.
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Goddamn they are a great band, and said songs are amazing. Her voice is incredible, and I love what that guy does with drums. Love dem drums! Especially on Nobody Nowhere. And the guitars on Prisoner, my God.
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D.C. can’t handle no edit Thursday, so will spend the day playing Mass Effect 3. That is all.
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I fell asleep listening to music on my commute this morning. I think when I woke up my iPhone was playing Stupid Girl by Garbage.
Is there a round-up or summary of the Nintendo Direct anywhere? Kotaku etc always cherry-pick bits or report on stuff in a whole pile of separate posts. Just want the executive summary.
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Well obviously. But see that’s the stuff being reported and I want to know more about the other stuff. Because they often don’t report on stuff I actually care about.
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Yeah, saw it.
Disappointing that they showed basically nothing but “hey the UI sucks less” for the Wii U. That system’s slowly dying due to their lack of support.
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I think it was supposed to be a #DS direct and they just threw that in. But yeah, Ninty’s not doing anything to change my stance on WeeeOOOO weeeeoooooo weeeeeeeeeeeeoooooooooo!
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@jimu @mythamphetamine @masha2932 @spaghett @freezespreston @tigerion @virus__ @blaghman @ynefel @gutsoup @crazyguy1990 @tofu @sernobulus @kermitron @benj @batguy @ruffleberg @scree
Need addresses please. Shoot me info to shane at shanewsmithdotcom. For those with the “postage to be discussed” next to their booty (saveitforpage18) I’ll have to investigate postage and get back to you. Will still need your addresses please.
Some of you, I probably have your addresses already, from recent escapades, but I am feeling lazy today, and can’t be bothered looking through old emails for them.
Hopefully first wave of stuff can go out tomorrow.
Edit: Do it. Random edit.
Really bummed about not being able to get to Sydney this weekend due to saving money, and last night my parents basically gave me a blank cheque for a bunch of stuff for the wedding…after I gave up the car for that lady-person to go do some more dress shopping out of town.
Well, I can’t complain on the wedding front, but I really wanted to go to the launch party, and meet some more TAYbies…
LIFE IS SO TOUGH BUT NOT REALLY RIGHT NOW.
EDIT: LIGHTNING, BABY!
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I will buy a bus ticket for @rize if someone puts him up.
Edit: He’s one of the damn stars of the comic. He must be there.
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Not much, but accommodation needs to be organised short notice too, and I have no idea about…anything that’s happening, really 😛
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*points*
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Good luck with that, buddy.
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LIGHTNING, BABY!
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Last night, @cakesmith, @blaghman and I played some DOTA2. For those not savy with the whole DOTA2 thing at the end of each game everyone that played in the game has a chance to get a random item.
At the end of one of the games this is what happened; Cakesmith got 2 items, Blaghman got 2 items, Random A got 2 items and Random B got 1 item. What did nob get? Nothing!
I don’t even, I carried that game and everything. Hell the random that stood ontop of a mountain and just attacked one jungle spawn point got an item. I really think that I have pokemon luck when it comes to Pokemon RNG.
Also, Sven is so damn OP! \o/
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Yes.
Also, not sure if you saw but BD:FF doesn’t have an English title yet. Bravely Default is it’s temp title.
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FUCK OFF!
They better not change it, Where did you hear that?Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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On the Nintendo Direct.
http://www.nintendo.com.au/nintendodirect
36:51 Professor Layton and The Azran Legacy
37:49 Bravely Default (temporary title)
39:36 The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Nintendo 3DS)-
fucking arseholes.
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I’ll do you a custom cover with the real title.
And boobs. 😉
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I’m not keen on the removal of “The” from Persona 4 The Golden
I just can’t fathom the idiocy….-
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Dood,
I know. Calm down. I just don’t see the point. It seems like Atlus US are just creating more work when there really doesn’t need anything doing.
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Yeah, it is all over the place. Suckersssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
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@kermitron @shane
These are the glasses i bought.
http://www.toniandguy-opticians.com/shop/products/Ted-Baker-Glasses-Pot-of-Gold-4186.html
glasses work out to be $125.89, with free lenses. case is $8.
Shipping is $18.49. So overall it was AU$152.38, but there was an added bonus.
Because we are outside the UK though, we dont pay VAT, so that drops the price right down to about $129.70
Edit: Bunnys are awesome… RIP Bugsy, my awesome dwarf bunny who turned out to be a not so dwarf bunny…. You are missed every day 🙁
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Neat. I’m going to keep that site in mind when I need a replacement.
The only issue is I have a pretty strong prescription so I generally need to order super/ultrathin lenses so I don’t have coke-bottle glasses, so I’d be up for an extra 120 pounds, which is what, $250? I guess I wouldn’t really have saved much.
Still, worth looking at.
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120pounds is only $178…
but you will also get vat off the 120poundsso roughly only AU$150 for your lenses!!
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Global financial crisis has been good for us in recent years. You no longer have to multiply pounds by 2.5. \o/ About 1.5 is a decent indicator.
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The Third Annual Kindly Endowment of Surplus Terrific Unassuming Free Frivolity (page 15 edition – over halfway there!).
But you’re too slow. Head to Page 16 already.
SEND ME YOUR ADDRESSES FOLKS (shane at shanewsmithdotcom). THE LINES ARE OPEN NOW.
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No reason. I totally am not sneaking extra items to people. :\
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Not interested, man. But thank you. 😐
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That was totally a joke. I know you’re not interested 😛
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It’ll get edited. Don’t you worry.
And I DO care. Diligently editing every post so the bunnies don’t get cancer. Everyone else is a damn monster 🙁
Edit: Monsters.
…how did I not see Mallrats on that list? More importantly, why would you want to get rid of it?
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I have more than one copy. Obviously. No one in their right mind would give away their only copy!
Edit: Mallrats claimed by @rize
ok , am going to put hand up for
Dawn of the Dead (2004 remake) or Ass Creed 360
you choose, surprise me. this is on condition i can send you postie moneys
Edit intentional spelling mistakes made cause edit saves bunnies.
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Ok, well can i at least buy a copy of The Lesser Evil? Autographed by the man of course! reply to my email with some bank/paypal deets!
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Yes, but… you might have to wait a couple of weeks. Am currently reserving all my current copies for a convention I’m hitting up on the 27th. I’m sure there will be some left over though! \o/
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I looked up that Lord of the Rings 360 game and it sounds intriguing, so I’ll claim that one too!
But what if I don’t give you my address? You’ll never be able to offload it all? Bwahahahaha!
Morning TAYbies,
Today I woke up and immediately had Empire Records on my mind … no idea why. Once I got to work I decided to check out the actual date for Rex Manning Day so I could watch the movie and generally be awesome. Rex Manning Day was 10 days ago. I feel cheated that I have to wait another year to celebrate Rex Manning day properly.
Woe is me and all that jazz. In slightly more interesting news, my boss gave me a 2tb NAS drive to get working and then half an hour later he said I could have it … turns out it just needed a format and I’m now copying all my movies and junk to it so I can get rid of my old as balls connector for the tv. Also I finally got to watch the latest Doctor Who last night, still kind of meh about Clara, thoughts on things?
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I really like Clara’s hair. She has an old lady nose.
I think they chose her because of those huge wide-eyes she shoots out at the camera every time somthing fantastic happens.It’s early days yet. She has plenty of time to prove her worth.
I was so over Rory & Amelia it wasn’t funny, that last episode was sad and really hit the spot for me but a few of the filler ones had me gagging. That space cowboy episode was so bad I switched it off.
I loved Amelia to begin with, but she and rory should have left last season. They really dragged them out too long for my liking.
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I definitely cant afford that. It kind of sucks to pass on some of the greatness of the higher tiers, but I might have to suck it up and just get vanilla tier with the printed book.
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I think if you go with anything over $45 you get any of the stretch goals that get unlocked too.
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Replying because apparently im not allowed to edit – I started to type kickstarter in the address bar, fumbled over the keys, accidentally pressed enter, and lexxys kickstarter appeared. Its a sign.
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OKAY GUYS, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
Can you explain what it is you guys keep talking about? I’m too lazy to look it up but I’m curious to know 😛
What I’ve gathered:
– Penny Arcade(?) “Strip Search”
– Lexxy was in it but quit(?) and has her own KickstarterKNOWLEDGE IS POWER
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Edit:
Strip Search is a reality show/competition being run by Penny Arcade for webcomic artists. Lexxy was a contestant on it, but lost an elimination challenge. But now she’s been brought back on! Also, she has a kickstarter for a really cool looking comic she’s making.-
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Well now you’ll have to catch up!
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Too late, you missed your chance for a discussion buddy :'(
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I ALREADY HAVE A DISCUSSION BUDDY!
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ANOTHER ONE!
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I only started like, last week. Didnt take long to catch up.
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@sughly
BOOK MARKED MOTHER FUCKERS
YOU GUYS WIN
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Yeah get into it mang. Reaaaally talented bunch of people, well worth it.
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Wait, you mean this isn’t an angry mob? DAMMIT! What am I supposed to do with this pitchfork and torch? I hired these all day and they won’t accept early returns!
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2d4 piercing damage + 1d4+class level fire damage.
Enemies must make a save vs skill) throw. If they fail they are engulfed by flames causing 1d4 fire damage per round. At the beginning of a round engulfed enemies may make a save vs skill roll. If successful the enemy is no longer engulfed (no damage is taken for this turn).
… I think I play too many D&D games
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Bus tickets, accommodation. Etc. I think I might have mentioned this a little on the last page.
Edit: lightning!
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Noooo, I’d end up with way too much guilt. I’m not good at mooching, especially anything that has a quantified monetary value.
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Mallrats cost me $3, and will cost a further $1.80 to post.
Edit: Trolololalalalala 😛
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Where’s @ash?
If you don’t have a 3DS already you’re gonna want one for Bravely Default methinks.
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Oh maaaaaaaaaaaan.
There’s a collectors Ed for Shin Megami 4 in the states that I hope we get too!-
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Oh no! These are at the top of my list with Dragons Crown and Muramasa!
(closely followed by DKCR3D & Fire Emblem)It’s a good year to be a handheld fanatic!
(Guacamelee! P4G)Seriously, all my whinging about the lack of great JRPG all these years had finally paid off!
EDIT: I’m downloading the Soul Sacrifice demo as we type!
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I’ve never played a SMT game. But I could get that CE thanks to my wonderful never-used US 3DS \o/
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Jelly!
Looks nice.
Game looks good, fights are 1st person but they made exploration 3rd thank the goddess!
The whole art direction is done very well I think.
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I hate 1st person turn-based stuff so much. Want to see my characters. 🙁
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I prefer non-first, but this is compromise since traditionally the whole game was 1st person. I hate 1st person dungeon crawling much, MUCH more.
I’m gonna give it a shot. I think everything else will make up for it 🙂
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Haha, same. Although that preview on the Nintendo Direct sure was great. Such awesome music and pretty visuals!
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What sold me were the original screenshots that had 3D models over drawn backgrounds, like classic PS1 JRPGs 😀
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Made by the crew who did the FF3&4 remakes and FF 4 heroes of Light. Sounds like a battle system which is an evolution of 4 heroes with a similar job system to FF5.
The art & music are amazing, I am keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen (as punch)-
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I know, right?! 😀
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BD:FF? They said 2013
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It’s effectively a new FF Four Heroes of Light. Apparently very very good. Extremely popular and extremely large. Heaps of voicing, FFV job system combined with a turn-based battle system which I’ve seen explained as special actions take a certain number of turns to execute and you can bank up turns by choosing ‘brave’ instead of taking a single-turn ‘default’ action, which is where the Bravely Default name comes from.
Famitsu scores are barely worth the paper they’re printed on, but it got a 38/40.
Oh damn, so cute!
Man I’m under the pump at work – got the EOFY crunch happening 😛 I’m not even thinking about games… unless their is a cute girl in them 😉
I was about to buy a copy I found in Sydney over New Years.
Sure I wouldn’t have been able to play or understand it but still.
I love Akihiko Yoshida’s artwork so much. If they do a CE it needs to have the Artbook they had with the JP release.
@tigerion, puns via emai. You win more games. Pick your favourite of the remaining options! \o/
Edit for the bunnies.
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Or Avatar. I’m not fussy with my free stuff
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All of the above! \o/
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All is well my good Ser. Finally got home from work and am about to enjoy a glass of vin rouge and Pad Thai actually. 🙂 hope you and the always delightful @strange are doing well too.
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DEAR ANYONE WHO’S GONNA BE IN SYDNEY THIS SUNDAY
theres a bar in Glebe, that @cakesmith & I were gonna head to this weekend. Open invitation to anyone who’s around at the time. Sunday afternoon / evening. starting about 4.30 – 5 ish or whenever I guess. Drinks & food. Its pretty much just a record store with a bar, but it’s a pretty cool place.
Record Crate Bar & Grill
Address
20 minute walk from Central station, or get any bus heading down Glebe Point Rd from Town Hall / Wynyard.
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Who’s going to be in Sydney? Anybody new and exciting? If they’re old and boring I’ll pass.
I was thinking about going to the A-League grand final at 4PM, I could drop by Glebe on the way home.
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But it sounds like you’re not going to be there, so no luck 🙁
You’re here for some other period of time though? What’s happening? Concerts or something?
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Yeah Epica on Friday night,and Pez’s album thing on Saturday night. You going to be at that?
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Probably not. I’m sure it makes me a bad friend, but I’ve been exhausted recently and need to spend a couple of nights at home to recharge. I think I’m out every single night the following week (though part of that is seeing They Might Be Giants – yay!)
Still I may yet steel myself and turn up. Did I have to RSVP?
Also, I hear that guy’s a – what was it? Fuckrod?
EDIT: To emphasise that I’m joking and prevent any potential drama!
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You’re gonna go watch the Mariners choke again? seriously, that club annoys me.
8 seasons, they’ve had 4 premierships & been in 4 grand finals & they’ve not been able to win one. the most frustrating side to follow.-
Not really following anybody, to be honest. I just like the atmosphere of a final in any sport. My Grandfather has member passes to the SFS, which means I can go for free, so I figure why not?
That said, because I don’t actually care about the result, there’s still every chance I’ll get out of bed on Sunday and think screw it, I don’t wanna go.
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I will be there for a while, but I dunno how late, because my graduation is the next morning and I would like to be not hungover. 😛
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Hahaha, an Arts student turning down a drink and being responsible.
Good joke!
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I have work on the Monday but will hang around until 9:30-10ish. Plenty of time for dinner and a couple of drinks.
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*wiggle wiggle wiggle*
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Well that just sounds dirty.
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WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE YEAHHHH
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@ynefel (@dc maybe?)
I watched the first episode of Defiance last night. It’s better than expected, I quite enjoyed it actually. There’s some kind of shitty CG, but fuck, Doctor Who looks like dick most of the time. Overall, Maybe 7/10? Definitely a lot of promise, I’ll keep watching.
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I watched it too and was actually pretty happy with it. There’s some budget special effects in there, but honestly it’s the same grade you get from any prime time scifi ala Stargate, Star Trek, etc. Par for the course, I think. I was most intrigued by the fact that having played the game beforehand actually made me appreciate it a whole lot more, I think.
I’m definitely looking forward to more to see where it goes. Still enjoying the game too – finding I can hit in short spurts if I want, or go a bender. It seems to facilitate either approach quite well. YOu can just jump in and do a few side missions or something, if that’s all you feel like.
Digging the whole Defiance concept as a whole.
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Yeah I’m going to make sure I play through the episode missions in game each week, it’ll definitely add to the whole tie-in. I like that they haven’t made the game and TV show tie in directly, so you can enjoy one without the other, but if you do both, you get a whole lot more out of it. It’s a great idea as well because the TV show potentially extends the life and content of the game, and the game will do the same for the TV show. Probably to a lesser extent, but still.
I was a bit ho-hum on the idea of the TV show tie in at first, thinking I’d likely just disregard the show and play the game. Turns out I was wrong.
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Definitely. Although I don’t have the next one yet. I probably need to do some more story missions. I watched the episode with my girlfriend who hasn’t played the game at all and she still enjoyed it, so they’ve done a good job.
I was the same as you before I watched the episode, but now I find I’m actually looking forward to the next one.
Edit: Also, Bear McCreary is a pretty cool guy.
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Yeah I like the music, suits it well and I found it feels different to a lot of TV shows. Was cool to hear music from the game on the show too – I already knew most of the music beforehand.
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So the game is good? I completely overlooked this one, but after hearing about the crossover thing I’ve become intrigued, Is it worth a buy? I’m always a bit weary of MMOs, I played one once, and became far too engrossed
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I’m enjoying it. And from what I can tell, so is @ynefel. I really treat it less like an MMO and more like a third person shooter. Just with more people around.
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The game’s quite good. It’s nothing earth-shattering but it’s solid and I’m really enjoying it. It’s an MMO, but it seems to cater to the casual player as well. I haven’t interacted with anyone as yet, and haven’t really needed to. I’ve also found (as mentioned previously) I can hit it in a 20-30 minute quick hit if I want, or I can sit down and get into it. Both ways work.
Also the TV show tie in seems to be working for me, and I was skeptical to begin with.
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I’ve had KFC for 3/4 days this week 😛
Deathhhhh
It’s really bad that there’s a KFC right next to the bus stop and right next to Uni :/
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GUIS I LOST MY WATER BOTTLE I DON’T KNOW WHERE
I NEED WATER
I’M THIRSTY
NOOOOOOOOOOOOoooOOoooOOOOOOOooooooOOOO
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THEY TOOK YOUR WATER BOTTLE AS PUNISHMENT
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HNNNGGGHHHH this 2 hour lecture is going to be death :'(
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Remember to swap out the sides for upgrades!
Go away ‘potato and gravy’ I want some large ‘chips’!
Make good use of the awesome power and responsibility that comes with having a KFC right next to Uni! Eat it 7/7 days of the week 😛
I miss having KFC within walking distance. I can’t figure out why there was one in a town of 3000 people but not one in Sandy Bay with Uni students everywhere :S
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But I’m not at Uni for 3 days a week!
I DON’T WANT TO LEAVE THE HOUSE FOR KFC
This is odd because I didn’t have KFC (or fast food) for like 2 months but then BOOM, at least once a week now T___T
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Hey @rize and @blaghman maybe talk to @35 or something. I had a look but most places have nothing available that I deal with (I do my job too well)
Ok Peoples I am needing a new game to play. Something SciFi. I love RTS type games, But less so the 4X space games. But it also has to be something relatively low end as my computer is an old slow thing.
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I’m giving away Age of Empires 2 for the Playstation 2. I think you can enter cheat codes and get laser guys (sci-fi).
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I really quite enjoyed Enemy Nations, and that was only $10 when it came out a hundred years ago. If you can find it, it should be practically free.
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You make a valid point and I would agree with you, but then we would both be wrong
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Ha!
Nah they were both brilliant, I thought. I liked Dark Reign a little better because that game was fast. Total Annihilation was awesome for long, protracted battles. Some immensely satisfying things to build and destroy your opponents with.
I don’t remember Dark Reign 2 well, but I know played the pants off the first one. Same with Total Annihilation, only ever played the first game. Was a system killer at the time too, which was almost unheard of for an RTS. They had maps exclusively for people with 64mb of RAM. Crazy.
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Both were great but I fell on the other side of the fence. TA was amazing. I enjoyed dark reign but not as much as TA.
Although while DR2 was superior they kinda fell down a bit with TA kingdoms, I liked the idea but the execution was a bit off.
I also found Supreme commander just a little too big or something, it never really captured the magic of the original.Of course neither of them were Dune 2 😉
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Dune 2 was the first RTS I ever played, and I think it may have been one of my first PC games ever. I grew up with an Amiga 500 as a child, and I seem to remember Dune 2 being one of the only games I could run on my 386, which came after the Amiga.
So good.
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Did you ever play the more modern dune remake – Emperor of dune or something?
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@tigerion
Not sure, I don’t think so. I did play Dune 2000 – the remake, but I think that was about it. Dune 2K was still pretty cool, but my fondest memories will always be of the old version. No way I could play it today, but still very cool.
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Total annihilation
Darkspore was an interesting combination of ARPG and spore. Not great but enjoyable for a while.
Defense Grid: The Awakening if you like tower defense
SPAZ is light on requirements and a fun and interesting game
WARP is a cute little puzzler
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-220/comment-page-15/#comments
Go crazy.
Total Anihilation
Startopia
Earth 2160
Dark Reign
Dark Reign 2 (LOVED that game)
Etc etc
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Low on specs but HIGH ON AWESOME!!!!!!
AMIRITE??!??!Seriously though, Dawn of War is brilliant – the expansions are pretty good too. Dark Crusade and Winter Assault were best. Soulstorm was poo.
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I this new Zelda game is set in LttP timeline, why isn’t Link sporting purple hair?
@sughly @doc_what @greenius
Deal-breaker :p
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It’s set in the same Hyrule as LttP. Don’t think there’s been confirmation of same timeline yet.
Remember, it’s the tale of swords and souls endlessly retold. Er…
*hand waves* Constants and Variables. Green Suited Hero, Evil Wizard, etc.
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I don’t remember Alex Kidd eating hamburgers. Weren’t they rice balls? (Only played Miracle World).
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I vaguely remember Alex Kidd and hamburgers…. which one was preloaded onto the Master System II? That was Miracle World wasn’t it? I think that was the one I played.
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Yeah the Master System II had Alex Kidd in Miracle World.
Looked it up and apparently the cartridge version had Alex eating onigiri at the end of every stage, where in the integrated one it was changed to a burger, however I am absolutely certain (I played the shit out of that game) that he ate onigiri in mine too and I had an integrated one. So I dunno.
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I thought it was region specific?
Asia got rice Western got burger, no?
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New Zealand is Asia?
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Did you have an Asian console? I dunno.
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Nintendo deserve recognition for their bravery in making him a character.
The only reason he isn’t trying to crack onto Peach and Daisy is because they are about 15 years too old for him.
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He looks like the kind of character that would hang around a school and offering kids free candy if they get in his dirty van.
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My life would be completely made if his cart in the next Mario Kart was an unmarked white windowless van.
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Like i’d ever change.. psh.
I’m Peter Pan, baby! Ain’t never gunna grow up! And i wear tights!
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Also, was awesome seeing you last night @strange. I was feeling extra strength nervous for some reason and don’t think I made the best of impressions, but I still had fun! 😀
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#lawnmowerman
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Doofus! 😛
Besides, we’ve met on loads of occasions now. I don’t think you really need to worry about impressions, we’re already friends….
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You’re awesome! I just still get self-concious. The more we hang, the more that’ll stop, I suspect. 😀
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You didn’t seem any more nervous or self-conscious than usual. 😛
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One of my buddies over at Slave to Painting has started up his own commision painting business as he’s unable to work.
If any of you have facebook and like seeing nicely painted things, give the man a like if you can – there is some really great stuff there
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Crippled-Bristles/424465577628212?ref=ts&fref=ts
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Wow, some nice work in there!
Wonder how much he’d take to paint my whole Space Hulk set. =D
But I should paint them myself for ultimate satisfaction. They wouldn’t be done anywhere near as well as that, but it’s the effort that counts, right?
RIGHT?!?!??!?!
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Well yes – it is. lol
It’s all about creating something you can be proud of – not something that you wil just compare to others.
That being said i think he would cream his jeans at the thought of painting that set. LOL
And yeah, he does some great stuff, that’s for sure.-
Yeah I think I’d just have to paint them. Tell him nice work though! Not on FB, or I’d tell him myself.
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You need to keep me posted on how they are coming along, man! 😀
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Yeah I will. Think I need to buy some new paints first. It’s going to happen though!
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If you need cheap paints, hit up slavetopainting.com.au
All i’ve been using recently is Valejo and Army Painter paints.
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Ooo, nice. Thanks! Might have to check them out, the Citadel stuff is fucking overpriced these days. I mean it was always kind of pricey, but now it’s just insane.
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I dunno, Zelda stuff:
Mainly a reply to @jimu about what I think about Zelda gaems but y’all can read it if you want… I don’t mind <3
So I started with Ocarina of Time and played Link’s Awakening shortly after. It’s hard to pick favourites but those two are probably my favourite 3D and 2D Zelda games. Like you, I didn’t play A Link to the Past until it released on GBA (so after LA and OoX) and really liked it. I noticed it was like OoT (I know it’s the other way around but that’s the order I played them) and had plenty of items and dungeons which is something I love. I’ve started and tried to finish it multiple times but didn’t actually complete it until a couple of years ago.
So after beating it I came to the conclusion that while it was good, I enjoyed other 2D ones more (specifically LA and OoX). I wasn’t too keen on Minish Cap either. It was super easy and short and WAS my least favourite 2D Zelda (not including Four Swords) until PH and ST came along mehhhhhh. Those two games were just nothing… Too easy, not enough items, puzzles were straight forward, tacked on touch stuff just blargh…
I get why people like A Link to the Past though and it’s probably my 2nd favourite 2D Zelda but I’m just hype that the newly announced one remains isometric. I’ve posted before and I’ll post again, I was worried that it’ll go away. The 3DS is more than capable of 3D Zelda games but I didn’t want the 3DS titles to feel like lesser versions of 3D console ones and I most certainly DO NOT WANT more 2.5D weird touch screen PH and ST type games. If they decided to go through the 3D route on 3DS then I figured if they ever did more “Four Swords” games that they’ll be isometric. There’s potential for a 3DS and Wii U type online Four Swords game but ehh… Nintendo, they don’t make the best decisions 😛
That’s enough Zelda and JRPG talk for now…
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Donkey Kong Country Returns 3DS!
I didn’t care for the initial announcement if it was just going to be the same game but there’s new content! I played it at a friend’s house but owned or played a decent amount (got up to some bit with waves and crabs) so I’m definitely keen now 😀
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Oh and I’ve noticed we (the West) are getting a lot of the games talked about in Ninty D before Japan :O
I hope that means us (Australia) too. Are Nintendo learning?!
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Slightly related:
I’m still hoping Nintendo of Australia will have a promotion like US and EU got where you register and XL (and a game) you get another game free. I would’ve loved Layton :/
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when the said proffessor Layton, i was hoping they were announcing X Ace Attorney.
that would have made my day
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I was hoping for that too :(, predicted BD though!
Was AA5 announced for the West (PAL)?
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yeah they said it’ll happen, not sure when though.
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Now a days I try not to get hype for anything until there’s a local (PAL) release announced 😛 (unless it’s on a region free console)
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Blah, DKR on wii was and is amazing! Cant see how a port will be any different, I’m just not keen caus I’ve already played it.
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Yeah, I wouldn’t be too impressed if I already had it but since I don’t – wooooo!
Well technically I borrowed it from my friend but still haven’t played it 😛
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I own DK and never finished it. Got right near then and before I was distracted. I love the game. It’s nearly as good as 2&3 and def better than 1 buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut…
THOSE MOTION CONTROLS
They’re just too imprecise for that sort of thing. I’d see stuff and try and do it and fucki it up over and over again because DK just wouldn’t roll. Really bad choice in that department.
And that’s why I’m keen, a really great game with proper controls.
On Zelda:
I dunno what it is, but Zelda just hasn’t done it for me for the last few games. ST was shit ( I loved PH), TP, the wolf bits? I can’t do ’em, I don’t get it. Why?
And I haven’t bothered with the Wii one because of, again, motion controls. I hear they are decent but I also hear people having similar troubles to what I had in DKCR.
It’s sad, Zelda used to be one of my fave franchises.
(Metroid has also gone south)
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I still really liked TP, wolf bits and motion controls didn’t phase me, but Skyward sword just bored me, the bit you got to fly around (kinda like Hyrule Field but in the air, was too sparse, there was like 10 planetoids and only half of them had anything to do one them, on the subject of Phantom Hourglass, i thought that was great, they implemented some really clever mechanics with touch controls, like drawing the boomerangs path or drawing a map of the area you’re in to solve a puzzle. I hope the new one is good cause I’ve gone from massive ninty fanboy to ninty skeptik
that’s my 2 cents whether you wanted them or not 😛
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In a kinda related note, I have always liked the 3D (over the shoulder) Zelda games then the top down 2D Zelda games. Possibly has to do with immersion (easier to imagine being Link when the camera is over shoulder). That’s not to say I dislike the 2D Zelda games, I played through LttP, OoS, LA and enjoyed them.
I adored DKR on wii, but a little bit of extra isnt enough to get me back in. It’s a slightly uglier counterpart for me, not too much more. I was keen when I thought it was a sequel.
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I did play it. I found them frustrating.
I was trying to get all the hidden collectables. Often I could see them, often I died trying to do a simple role then jump.
They fucked up my experience.
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role hur hurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Oh, just replied above but yeahhh, I wasn’t too keen at first since if it was just a port, I technically have the game but now it’s got new stuff and I didn’t exactly pay for the game, I’m happy to purchase a “superior” version.
Ughhhhhh the internet died and I have to finish an assignment in the next 2 hours so I panicked and ran down to Uni and then the wifi here won’t work so I’m in a shitty computer lab with no good software installed! This sucks.
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Not having a calculator on my keyboard here is driving me nuts! You don’t realize just how useful and 100% necessary that feature is on a keyboard until you don’t have it 😛
edit: I’m glad I came here because half an hour later and apparently it’s still down back home.
edit2: Although I may have spent more time on here than on the assignment 😛
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Thanks man 😀 I’ve just got 2 bugs to sort out and then it’ll be done. I have about an hour though, so we’ll see. If I don’t get them sorted it’ll only cost 2 marks anyway.
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DOTA TALK
@blaghman and @sernobulus
This reminded me of our game last night – http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bxO8SSf7eh4#t=38s
Some days I have no idea what to make of Kat and her generosity, love and caring for me, it’s just so much, never had anyone go to these lengths before for me. Now she’s sending me the comic books Corey Taylor wrote for The House of Gold & Bones, she said she hoped she could send them to me since she was going to have doubles of them after she gets signed copies in a few months from the fan pack from StoneSour.com
She’s really into me, but as what seems to be a defense says she isn’t into relationships and prefers to be on her own. I get a totally different message from the letters, texts, tweets and gifts she sends me.
I don’t see any of it as an issue, i’m just happy to have such a close friend who has constantly been there for me!
Also what I said the other day bout that woman we both know and her unfollowing us on Twitter she completely ignored us when we tweeted her, yet decided to reply to everyone else. We found this hilarious also sad she’s being so childish. So we’ve removed her from our lives!
Also uh, good afternoon everyone.
I don’t want to harsh any Nintendo fan’s mellow, so don’t read if you’re all psyched about the new stuff:
The new Zelda looks like it has the same soulless art style as the New Super Mario Bros games. That is all. 😀
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Boooo, hissss!
Actually you know the more I play of nsm wiiu, the more I’m starting to notice and like about the art. True story. There’s more to the game than first meets the eye.
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Hyped Nintendo fan here.
I agree. I just really want High Definition 2D Sprites. Is that so much to ask?-
I do agree that hi res 2d sprites would look better. But FAAAARK, beggars cant be choosers. So much negativity in here around a NEW GODDAMN LTTP GAME.
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Sorry, man. I warned you though. Shouldn’t have clicked on the spoilers! 😛
Edit: Also, I should shut up cause I’m not a Zelda fan anyway, so there’s no reason for me to care about it all that much one way or the other. XD
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Haha, dont apologise for having an opinion you dolt
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Haha! I was saying sorry for contributing to the negativity.
You know what looks amazing, though? Pikmin 3! 😀
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Damn straight it does.
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Oh, I agree. Perhaps I should have worded it better. It was the one factor that didn’t activate my hype-gland.
Also, my desire for HD 2D Sprites is not limited to Zelda or Nintendo.
The port of Castlevania: SOTN on XBL is total amazement. Looks so good. Or mutha flippin Shovel Knight; all my Hnngh.
I’m not super keen on the art style but it could be a lot worse especially since they showed it close to Yoshi’s Island which looks like ass compared to what it looked like before.
I’m mainly glad it’s not a goddamn PH/ST type of game or a 3D one
Honestly, most of the Nintendo fans need a swift boot up the arse to wake them up to the fact that Nintendo is peddling the exact same crap over and over again with a thin patchy layer of varnish on it. For all the talk of innovation Nintendo have innovated precisely dick.
Which makes me really cranky because the N64 provided so many happy times as a teenager. I really miss the Nintendo of that day. But I refuse to allow happy memories to excuse them. Keep up or fuck off.
Now you may downvote.
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I completely know where youre coming from, and to a certain extent I agree. And I’m an avid Nintendo fanboy. I know they could be doing better in a lot of places. But I think theyre doing a lot of things right with the 3DS at least, and this new LTTP game I think looks great. It could be that it ends up being a pretty shallow experience, sure, but I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt that it will be well made. Theyve talked a lot about wanting to please fans of lttp, and I think (hope) this will have heart in it.
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I love Nintendo’s hardware innovations. Always have. The N64 analog sticks, even recent stuff like Wii remotes or the WiiU gamepad – even if you’re not a fan, it’s cool someone’s thinking outside the box.
As for games though, I couldn’t agree more. Nintendo needs to stop with the inhouse-only systems and get more 3rd party titles. They’ve been that way since the Gamecube, when all the developers jumped ship and went to Sony. (And why wouldn’t they? Ninty and it’s woody for cartridges ruined them as a ‘mainstream’ competitor) I mean of course they have 3rd party titles, but not nearly enough. Even failing the lack of 3rd party support, what do people get excited about on Nintendo systems? Not Call of Duty, that’s for sure.
OHMAIGAT IT’S MARIO 421! OHMAIGAT ZELDA 17!
Look I still love those games, and I’m not poo-pooing you if it is your thing, either. I grew up as a diehard Nintendo fan, but it just feels like Nintendo need to get out more.
Book of Unwritten Tales is $5 on GOG today. http://www.gog.com/gamecard/the_book_of_unwritten_tales
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Acting in good taste is too mainsteam.
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Amen, brother.
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@negativezero
Seriously, I love you. The solution to that error you gave me has helped me 3 times now (all in different circumstances)! I was starting to panic because it wasn’t looping the entire code when asked if you want to do another calculation and giving me an error about string out of bounds or something but that fixed it again. Weird.
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I hate this unit, I really do. I know I’m going to get marked down on a few things for stuff we haven’t covered yet, but I’m struggling to code it how he wants it coded because it’s all so stupid!
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Fair enough if you use a builtin library to implement some algorithm they’re wanting to test your competency on (protip: “write a binary search” is a really really common interview question and a ton of graduates couldn’t do it! It’s actually quite tricky to get right) but if it’s just using better functions to achieve the same thing, that’s called being proactive and marking you down for it is bullshit.
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Oh my god.
Why is that so incredibly funny? ‘Now kith’ was said in my mind in the cheesiest Tyson voice imaginable.-
I know right, it’s bad. But hilarious.
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I’ve got a spare ticket to see Ross Noble for this saturday night.
So I’m gonna run a quick competition to give it away.
rules are really simple :
first person to say they want it & can make it, wins.
Edit: its in sydney, by the way.
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Last time I saw Ross, I was in the front row. I didn’t get made fun of personally, but the people a couple of seats away from me did. So it was like he was constantly talking to me, but not actually ridiculing me. Win win!
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I know… got these tickets for xmas from my parents & then Pez announced his launch. Damn that guy & his lack of reading my mind :p
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Aw man, I’m keen – haven’t seen Ross for a couple of years and I am in Sydney.
But I also wasn’t planning to go to Pez’s thing because I wanted to relax this Saturday, being an old man and all. Argh!
I really would like to go, though, so I’ll say yes. What time is Pez’s thing? Can I make both? If so, this will force me out of the house to be there too?
I am so fucking sick of the “Nintendo only release remakes / sequels” bitching that’s going on the Internet. So what? Me and a lot of people are having fun and its not hurting you in anyway. Or are we only allowed to have fun a certain way? If you don’t like what Nintendo are doing, don’t buy their god damn consoles and then bitch about them doing something they always have.
I think I need a break from the Internet, or Twitter atleast.
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its not a thing unique to Nintendo.
the whole industry is pretty risk-adverse.
they’ve found something that sells well, they stick to it.
as much as I wish more companies would take some risks, its not gonna happen.
still, its not as bad as it could be. & Nintendo are far from the worst offender.-
Yeah, however the new “cool” thing to do is to take a shot at Nintendo. You almost never see any company take a risk with a new IP yet it is perfectly fine, unless it’s Nintendo.
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The last time Nintendo copped this much flak was the GameCube – and that might actually be the best console ever.
So take heart, and think of it as an omen of the great things to come.
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Because I want a new damn 3D Mario, I want a proper new Zelda without gimmicky crap forced into it, I want a new game to amaze and ensnare us. I want Nintendo to return to the powerhouse kings of gaming it once was. I’m not complaining out of hate for Nintendo, I’m complaining from genuine concern for a company I do have affection for.
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Okay, that I can understand but post things like “Nintendo will find a way to fuck it all up. It’s what they specialise in these days” is not helpful in anyway.
It’s okay to criticise but just straight out calling a company shit / a fuck up just does not help anyone.
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You’re right of course. It just breaks my heart to see a company that used to show a genuine passion for gaming turning into a EA/Activision style purely for business profit machine.
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I don’t think it’s just for profits, they’re just making some genuine stupid decisions
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That wall/shadow thing could be well gimmicky yet, well see.
What about SM3DL? That is the best 3D mario since 64.
@freezespreston
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I think he meant more stupid shit like forced touch screen controls and motion controls.
Nope. Galaxy 2 mateeee
3D Land was really good though, nice mix of 2D and 3D and I liked it. Wish there was more to it though!
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I think the hardest thing for me is to see the company that almost single handedly defined my love of consoles and video games as a whole become what they have. I’m not saying it’s wrong, but a lot of what they do is not for me. To me it feels like they’re handing out rose colored glasses with every release instead of pushing the envelope and trying to be more.
I’m entitled to be disappointed or frustrated with their choices in regards to what games they choose to develop and release, just as you’re entitled to be a fan of how they go about things.
Don’t take it personally. Maybe some people are being dickish in their criticisms of Nintendo, but I try not to be. I love my WiiU and my 3DS, and oddly enough my favorite games on both systems aren’t developed inhouse. Just wish we could see more of these titles.
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I’m not saying you can’t be disappointed with them, I’ve never said that, what I’m saying is the “Nintendo is shit …” comments that seem to be the new cool thing to do on twitter.
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Also the fact that people seem to think that Ninty are the only ones that do remakes. As I have said before, it is perfectly fine for other companies to do it but not Ninty.
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Cool cool, just making sure any criticisms I’ve expressed at Nintendo weren’t being misconstrued is all. *colonpee* If people aren’t offering constructive critique and are just shitcanning for the sake of following a trend, maybe it’s time to do some unfollowing.
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Did anyone specific say stuff? I remember last time there was a Nintendo direct :P… so much unnecessary hate.
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Lol, I actually don’t know! MH3U is pretty great, but then again so is RE:Revelations, MGS3D, KH:BBS and I KNOW Foiyah Imbuhlumm is going to hold my dick for me.
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The biggest part. =P
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The Third Annual Kindly Endowment of Surplus Terrific Unassuming Free Frivolity (page 16 edition – over halfway there!). NEW STUFF ADDDED (the extra D is for bigger breasts or something)
All this stuff is free. One-per-person restriction is now gone . For larger items (or multiple items), I might ask for some consideration to assist with postage.
To participate, all you have to do is want it bad enough. My preference is that you want these items to consume, not to collect, but I obviously have no way to police that. Some of this stuff is probably worth quite a bit (especially the rare stuff), but I’m more about the TAYlove.
Here’s what’s on offer.
NOTHING.
Go to page 17
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Whoever hasnt watched the wire NEEDS to claim that dvd. I already has it, so dont even try it shane 🙂
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Still haven’t seen The Wire, but been kind of avoiding it Breaking Bad style. Too much constant dark, grittiness. I like Treme though!
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Nah, already have a backlog of shows on my TV list and The Wire isn’t a priority. Thanks though.
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My favourite fuck scene of all time is in The Wire Season 1, nothing and I say NOTHING has ever and will ever come close.
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O_o
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Have you seen The Wire yet?
SPOILAHS AND UNSURPRISINGLY NSFW
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Not yet, man.
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And thus your confusion 😛
It’s not an actual “sex scene” but I like referring to it as a “fuck scene”, keeps things interesting yo.
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“fuck scene”?
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FUCK SCENE
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Word.
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Have you seen The Wire before? (See above comment to Shane)
Well if noone else wants it… the wire? TAY marketing tells me it’s good. Put me as a low priority, I was gonna DL it & see what I thought.
Oh yesss! @dc – another new song from the National’s new album, woo! http://pitchfork.com/news/50283-listen-the-national-dont-swallow-the-cap/
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Awesome! 😀 Thanks man, I’ve liked all their new stuff you’ve linked so far. That bodes well. (Though I should really listen to Boxer. One of these days, I totally will!)
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Haha! You were right about Afraid of Everyone. Up there with Wake Up and Intervention in my most played songs list on iTunes. After actually listening, this new song is awesome! 😀
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It is right, got it repeat now XD
Third listen, and it just sounds better and better 😀
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Little Faith’s my National go-to song at the moment. Last week it was Runaway. 😀
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Bit slow on the uptake for this XD I’m really really liking the direction theyre taking on this though, has a beautiful mellow feel about it. Really smooth. Not sure whos doing the backing vocals on this one either but shes great.
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It can be your theme song too!
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The singer looks scarily like your SpacePyrates mate from uni who will be on the radio in 90 minutes.
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Also named Matt. XD
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TAYBargainBrag. It’s a new thing.
Spec Ops: The Line (360 copy) – $18.71
The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition (360 copy)
(which also came with a huge Prima guide) – $22.46
Band of Brothers – oldschool plastic foldout case – $17.96
The Wire – complete series 1-5 with attractive slipcase – $41.22
GRAND TOTAL: $100.35.
You may now express your awe and admiration.
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Spec Ops! Be sure to tag me in dicussions about it. I’ll ramble like a fanboy! 😀
Also, when can we expect this stuff to be given away? 😛
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(Btw, SpacePyrate uni folk you met at OzComicCon are on ABC radio this afternoon. Atleast in Brisbane. Probably streamed over the interwebs too. Talking webcomics and crowd funding.)
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I saw that on Facebook not two minutes ago.
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Pssh why, you’ll just ruin the whole experience for him!
😛
MASSIVE COLON PEE
THIS IS A JOKE
JUST MAKING THIS CLEAR D.C.
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Dear Fyah Emberlem
My 3DS is cold, lonely and neglected, please rectify this immediately.
Gutsoup
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Dear gutsoup,
I heard you owned a 3DS that youre not playing at the moment? I’m guessing you probably havent played me yet – hell, even people who do own me took a long time to come around to actually playing me! But, you know, you should totally give me a go.
Sincerely,
Virtue’s Last Reward
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Dear Virtue’s Last Reward
I ‘aven’t even ‘eard of you. We should like meat and see if we hit it off,
Gutsoup
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Dear Fwah Anblem,
My 3DS is packed full of Monster Hunter love, but there’s always room for one more.
I’m talking about polygamy from a physical-only perspective, in case that wasn’t clear.
Rize
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Foyarrr Ermlberlumumum would successfully pry Monster Hunter from it’s firmly-entrenched place in my 3DS’ card slot. I look forward to the process.
My thoughts on the latest batch of greenlight approved games
Agarest: Generations of War
JRPG with multi generational heroes. From the description provided by @negativezero it sounds good
Tigs greenlight rank: Yes
Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures
Action platformer with a retro satirical feel. Not really interested as it seemed to be pandering to the vote for us because we are nerdy like you” market.
Tigs greenlight rank: No
Battle Worlds: Kronos
Turn based battles based on the SSI classics. Seems similar in style to a might and magic style gaem which I am terribad at.
Tigs greenlight rank: Ask me later
City of Steam
MMO with cool looking world and seems to have some depth to the story and world.
Not looking for a new MMO at the meoment
Tigs greenlight rank: No
Cradle
Much more of an artsy game, a strange adventure/explporation/puzzle sort of thing. The art style and visuals sold me
Tigs greenlight rank: Yes
Dead State
Zombie apocolypse with strategic turn based AP combat. Fog of war, noise tracking and the need to scavange equipments to support the base.
Tigs greenlight rank: Yes
Dead Trigger
Generic looking FPS Zombie zooter
Tigs greenlight rank: No
Death Inc.
Strategy game, with the primary gameplay mechanic of spreading the black death. Sweep and move with different enimies and the like. Looks like a fun little game.
Tigs greenlight rank: Yes
Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey
Adventure game, @dc love
Tigs greenlight rank: Didn’t see before approved
Elsword
Platforming beat em up. Free to play. Co-op and Vs. Will probably give it a try at some stage
Tigs greenlight rank: Didn’t see before approved
Faceless
I don’t do horror games
Tigs greenlight rank: No
Frozen Endzone
Frozen Synapse + sportsball. What more do you need to know
Tigs greenlight rank: Yes
Hammerwatch
Co-op twin stick shooter.Don’t really like the art style and a bit to bullet hell for me
Tigs greenlight rank: No
Legend of Dungeon
Strange looking game. Co-op rouguelike beat em up.
Tigs greenlight rank: No
Pinball Arcade
It’s pinball on a computer. Table selection looks really good (a dozen or so) and looks to be playing well. But it’s still pinball on a computer.
Tigs greenlight rank: No
Planet Explorers
Exploration, survival, tower defense, base building game. Seems a bit like a visually impressive minecraft on an alien world. The construction looks much more advanced with the ability to design and build indivual weapons and vechiles and turrents. Curious but want to see how it works in practice
Tigs greenlight rank: Ask me later
Rush Bros.
DJ themed super meat boy style game. Appears that there is a multipler race challenge. Twitch reflex and memory games aren’t for me
Tigs greenlight rank: Didn’t see before approved
Shovel Knight
Another retro platformer style game. Interesting concept of shovel as primary weapon but not for me
Tigs greenlight rank: No
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I can’t wait for Dreamfall Chapters. I actually discovered Kotaku AU through the Dreamfall fandom back in the day. 😀 Asylum was picked up in the last bunch, you should try Scratches Tigs. See if you like. (Asylum’s the creators next game.)
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Had a chat about these last night haha! A bit of Longest Journey negativity was shared, myself included. Ranted about long exposition and whatnot. A lot of Dreamfall love was given though.
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Oh, I see how it is. You’ve got new adventure game friends now. :'(
Haha! Yeah, I can definitely see the problem with all the talking in The Longest Journey, but at the same time I missed the complexity of the puzzles in Dreamfall. (Which was much more cinematic and Heavy Rain like. :D)
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Youd be happy to know a lot of Quantic Dream love was given haha!
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Haha! Good people, every last one of ’em then. 😛
FUTURE OF THE GENRE! 😀
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@dc, not games like Anna’s Quest, then? 😛
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@shane: Haha! Those 2D games are starting to look spectacular now that they’re made in higher res. Just look at Deponia. Can’t wait to see HD Anna’s Quest. Also cartoon adventures will ALWAYS look better in 2D. 😀
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Looks weird! Haha!
Gone Home looks pretty awesome!
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I think I would feel like McCreepy Stalkerson playing that
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It’s the main characters family home, you’re not just rummaging through a strangers house. 😛
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It’s an adventure game, puzzles and all that. There’s some really scary atmosphere and a couple of moments that will make you jump, but it’s not really a horror. More a slow burn mystery. I see it on sale on GOG all the time for about $3. 😀
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Yeah, agreed. Really well worth the play though Tigs. It has some really creepy backstory. The atmosphere can also get downright creepy, especially at night (in game).
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I think it is part of a genre that draws on a lot of rose coloured early console memories. Which isn’t a negative thing, but going from atari 2600 to master race means I missed a hell of a lot of those platform style games.
The game itself looks good but not something I would jump to get. Also a lot of perfectly timed jump / memory kinda stuff looks like it might be required which worries me. For example having to jump enemy to enemy across a pit of death.
My description probably made it sound worse than I think it is because it was at the bottom of the list and effort. Also because it isn’t a game for me.
Agarest isn’t really that good but it’s fun enough despite its many flaws and had some interesting ideas, and it’s cool to see it on Steam. Shouldn’t have needed to go through Greenlight though IMO – if it was good enough to get a PS3 retail release then why does it need to get curated by a bunch of neckbeards? Same goes for Dreamfall – there’s no way that wasn’t going to get approved.
Greenlight is the worst thing Valve have implemented. Seriously, what the hell is with the ‘no’ option? Who really cares if games you wouldn’t buy are on Steam?
Also why doesn’t everything have to go through Greenlight?
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The no option is so that it removes it from the list of games they show you. So that you don’t constantly get shown games you have no interest in.
Not everything needs to go through greenlight but i guess due to the low number of jrpg on steam they weren’t confident there was enough demand for it. When even supporters such as yourself are saying ‘isn’t really that good’ they might have been overly cautious on it.I actually quite like greenlight, once you wade through the crap there are some cool games that are popping up that never would have made it onto steam otherwise. I don’t think dead state would have got through a normal review process, and probably death inc and cradle wouldn’t have either.
For finding unusual indie games it works well, they just have to be careful not to make it a catch all for games that should just go on steam, otherwise the unexpected games will not get into the top 10 because the larger developer produced games take all the spots
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It was always going to be easy to get Agarest through Greenlight IMO. There’s no other JRPGs on Steam aside from Ys, and the Ys games are more action platformer games anyway.
Agarest is no Xenoblade or anything. It’s a low-budget, kind of pervy niche SRPG. But the series has a strong fanbase.
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Would you consider The Last Remnant a jrpg?
Not that it changes your point, just curious as I would consider it one. There is also the Zeboyd games (Cthulhu Saves the World, etc..) but I guess they use the same controls but are more a parody of a jrpg than actually a jrpg.If something like Xenoblade or Graces was pitched to steam I would hope that it would get straight on. If the person getting the pitch didn’t know much about jrpg I can see it getting blocked at the approval process. Also as you say there isn’t many / any on steam so valve could be unsure of actual demand. Having a few get through greenlight might make them more likely to have them go straight on rather than through greenlight.
I’m probably a bit bias as I think greenlight is great and will often take some time to go through and rate everything in my queue. I’ve found some really interesting games that way.
Anyway I’ll probably get Agarest and never play it
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Soon I’ll be discussing my application to work from home a couple of days a week with my manager. Maybe this is where my accumulated good karma kicks in… ?
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On days like today when I have nothing to do, I could be writing instead of mucking around on the internet. Dream.
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I like the idea that Thursday is Dark Souls day on that there Potaku thing. So it helped that this week @shane had some Souls-themed things to say. I’m too lazy to do that link thing today so just have this – http://potaku.com/2013/04/18/rediscovering-obsession-when-a-game-transcends-gaming/
Also there’s some more from me about Anor Londo there today, now that I’m finished with that area. Hooray! Dark Souls!
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I’m up to that place.
And I agree with previous comments, pretty place but the residents are jerks. Big jerks-
Jerks is my Word of the Week, I’ve bee using it that much.
And some more colourful language, but let’s stick with jerks.
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You’re up to
Four Kings already? I still gotta go get Sif (tonight’s job, probably) first. Haven’t yet decided if I’ll do Great Hollow/Ash Lake now, or later.-
I saw that there were ghosts in the ruins, and decided ‘nope not staying here for long’. Only problem is no bonfires in the ruins. Urgh…such a trek. Sif was pretty easy though, got in close and hacked at his legs repeatedly.
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I read about the demo, I like the idea about it – mutliplayer stuff is added in and saves carry over to the full game.
If I bothered with demos I would’ve checked it out 😀
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I don’t know, I usually know what games I want. Sometimes I’ll demo but most of the time I’ll download demos then delete them without playing them. I have the Fire Emblem demo but haven’t touched yet. I know that playing it will make it want it even more so it made the wait easier if I just didn’t play it 🙂
And I don’t want to turn into a filthy demo hoarder like @masha2932 !
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I play em all.
Fire Emblem put me off a little. Not that it was bad, just that I didn’t care for it as much as I thought.
SS I know little about and @Neinhandle wants to multi so I’m trying to see if I care enough.I always demo, I have a big collection of PSone demos out in the garage. I love demos.
Discovered Abe’s Oddyssee because of the demo.
There’s prolly a bunch of other games too.
I find a demo can be better than a full review.
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Yeah, the MH3U demo was terrible.
That’s the thing though, it might make me interested in games I wouldn’t originally have been interested in :P. Money is limited!
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Order from Super UFO yet?
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Dear Ninty
If you waited another week before announcing Bravely Default in the West I would have purchased Fire Emblem this weekend.
Your Pal
Emperor jimu
#budgeting
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These are practically bought:
Dragons Crown
Muramasa
Bravely default
Pokemon
Persona 4 ArenaThese have been bumped down to monies unknown
Deadly Premonition Directors Cut
Fire Emblem
DKCR3D
Atelier Ronronier Plusier Vita …you know the oneI also have kept some money aside for Bargains, indies and the like.
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FUCK NO!
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My waifu!
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@ash
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I best go to better before this gets any more out of control
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I’m on the fence with that.
I still haven’t finished Abyss, Graces or Vesperia.Graces is dragging this kiddy thing along a bit much. When do I grow up already?
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If I have to grind to beat that kid in Abyss, me and Abyss will have words.
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Vesperia seems the besy but I wasn’t in an xbox controller mood tonight.
Tomorrow I will be pooped after the day trip I imagine but the night after I may pop it back in. If it isn’t already in the tray.Man, my consoles get no love these days.
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Vesperia is the best. On PS3. 🙁 Pirate Patty. 🙁
Depends on how far into the prologue you are. It doesn’t even unlock the proper combat system until you grow up.
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2013 was all that was given. I believe America is 2014 so :DDDD
SUCK ON THAT MURICANS
I saw some tweets announcing that it was getting a US release in 2014 so I was a bit disappointed but glad to see it’s earlier for us and that PAL regions are even getting it at all.
Man, I don’t even know if the game is good or not it’s just so damn pretty!
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Didn’t play 4 heroes, enjoyed FF3 and 4 remakes (didn’t finish them though), kinda hoped we’d get a 5 and 6 remakes 😀
But those games are those games, not Bravely Default.
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I just replied a long answer about how good 4 heroes is and blah blah blah
Internet died 🙁
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You know you can just press BACK and the comment will still be there 😛
Well too late now since you’ve replied :'(
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Tried that, usually works, not this time :/
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Just asking, no judging (I totally will) but how many RPGs do you own that you didn’t finish?
I mean, I don’t understand how you havent done the true ending on P4G when you call your Vita the P4G machine.*lifts gavel*
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Quite a bit but define “own” 🙂
Had FF3 and 4 on DS naughty card, hence why I didn’t bother finishing them. I generally beat the ones I buy and legitimately own (UNLIKE YOU), recent examples include FFXIII-2, Ni no Kuni, Tales of the Abyss (and more I can’t remember) and I was playing P4G a lot but it really starts to slow down towards the end, I’m sure I’m only a few hours away from the end I just haven’t really had the time to play it lately.
I usually play handheld games in bed before sleeping but lately I’m up too late playing Monster Hunter so I just go straight to sleep 😀
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Hey!
My collection far outweighs the few games this gen I have yet to complete!
I was a bit the same with the naughty card, but there were a few I went out and bought becaus e they were so good. I now have a massive collection of DS games.#JudgeJudged
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It’s because of games like Ni No Kuni that I’ve headed even further down the handheld path.
I intensely loved that game but life threw me off track and I lost the urge.
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@jimu
But I specifically listed recent JRPGs that I finished which you didn’t :). Persona 4 is the only exception but that’s cause I’ve been busy putting 187 hours into Monster Hunter!
What hour mark did you beat it at? Oh man, I can’t remember what I was at… 67+ I think? That seems a bit low, I swear it was higher…
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67 hours I think.
I didn’t ever have to grind and didn’t do any quests. Well a few but nothing that required me to head back in the TV. I planned to but it got to the point where I couldn’t.
I can still do all those optional bosses too. Will try since
(situation spoiler:)
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I wish I had the time to spare you put into MH, wow!
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If there’s anyone here who is guilty of buying all the JRPGs and then never finishing any, it is me. 🙁
SE better not fucking touch FF6. Shit’s sacred, yo.
I feel that way about 7. 6 I would love a redo like 3&4.
I own 6, got right to the end. Couldn’t find Terra or Locke. Never finished 🙁
Your original game is still there brah
yeah this. It’s like all those lackluster superhero movies that come out. I can always go back and read the good stuff 😀
@jimu – exactly, it’s not like they’re destroying all the original copies 😛
I don’t think the holy trinity (7,8 and 9) should ever be touched for any reason. Same game is still there, sure but remakes change things. Your memories and perceptions are forever altered, even if only a little.
6 is just more my opinion. It’s probably my favorite FF, and I know many who feel the same. But it is outside the trinity, even if only for the style of game.
You mean like the time they semi-remade it for PS1?
Yeah but I don’t really see that as a remake, I guess. Kind of like the PSX version of Chrono Trigger.
I wonder if this means that they’re getting the UK group that did the Operation Rainfall games for Nintendo to do it? So British voiceovers?
Because I actually personally found the British accents even more annoying than I would have found the usual American crap 🙁
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I didn’t even notice…oh wait, can you set Xeno to Japanese? I would have done that if I could.
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I played Xeno through in Japanese. Their translation was… questionable. Several characters had minor personality shifts, lots of the localization was simplified from what was being actually said. I know enough Japanese to know they’re dubtitles and people are saying other things and it’s distracting. Especially given they arbitrarily changed characters names too.
Also some of the attack names they call out, especially Dunban’s, sound way cooler in Japanese and don’t really translate well.
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Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Nah, just this year, but I have planned that far ahead.
Right up til Pokemon in October.
Fire Emblem will have to be a Birthday money thing.
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I make fun of you and your money scrubbing but I totes should be doing the same thing 🙁
I’m just way lazy.
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And greedy.
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I know them feels, I have a wife to keep me in check though.
Ha ha! This year she’s suss because I’ve kept all my spending money aside. Usually I am behind on games I want. Heee HAAA!JRPGs take priority cos I know I’ll get the most outta them!
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I should probably be doing it too and not ordering expensive CEs. 🙁
So Sydney peoples: what is the weather like? Will I get away with taking a light jacket or will I need something warmer?
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It’s reasonably cool. Early 20’s at the highest, sort of rainy but not heavy rain (yet) and a good bit of sunlight to make things seem warmer.
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Starting the Mass Effect 3 Citadel DLC. One quick musing (end game spoilers)
The order of things in a save that has completed the main story is amusing, since it throws you back to just before assaulting the Illusive Man’s base. So you jump back into a game that’s at this big moment, the point of no return, lots of drama here we go everyone, suddenly email from Hackett SHEPARD YOU’RE ON SHORE LEAVE well okay then…
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I’m replaying the entire Mass Effect 3 since I’ve got Leviathan, Omega and Citadel to go through. Looking forward to starting some new content. 😀
Speaking of Mass Effect, I’m going to play Mass Effect. 😀
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Praline and dick.
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Nah, it’s okay man. I’ve had a fairly shit last few weeks. Been spending all weekends and my days off trying to fix my PC with absolutely no success which fairly frustrating. Also a hell a lot of responsibilities have been dumped on me recently at work (no extra money of course).
It’s a bit shit when you don’t really look forward to going home because there is something just as frustrating waiting to be done.
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I honestly think unleashing a sledgehammer onto my computer would be one of the best feelings ever.
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i bought a ps2 2 years ago just so i could play ico and shadow of the colossus…. i never ended up getting either. then i ended up getting the HD versions on PS3
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I’m not sure about others but I don’t really go back to previous ones, especially if there’s a better version (HD one) out – bit harder to give away too since it’s just a disc only (we’re all collector’s!)
Those interested probably already have it or want the HD version.
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Been doing some basic maths:
@shane = good guy
YOU’RE CRAZY MAN, DO YOU GIVE EVERYTHING AWAY????
the way you’re going, im suprised your not getting people to place backorders the moment you buy a game!
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You need a calculator. Your arithmetic sucks.
Nope, don’t give everything away. Just stuff I honestly don’t want, and have no energy to sell.
@shane DickmanA somewhat affable term for someone who is a complete knob. Originates from the deep well of love one feels for another filtered through a bleak wasteland of nothingness comprising of an individuals worldview.
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So it’s not one of these
Is it like a brosult, like “hey man, you’re all about dick, but that’s cool because we’re still all up in friendship here. Dickman” ?
Or is it more a redundancy-laden tautology, like “You’re a man, you have a dick. Dickman” ?
I guess I was way off.
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I used to call people “toilet-pisser” in highschool, fitting into the second column.
I had a mate that would get really offended. It was hilarious.
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I’m conflicted with VLR. I haven’t finished 999 yet (which I plan to do) but I already have it on 3DS. However, it’s free on Vita through PS+ so I have it there now and I hear the 3DS version has a game breaking glitch 😛
What to play it on… hmm…
Too hard a decision to make so I just won’t play it all!
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I haven’t played 999 but considering VLR is an indirect sequel I assume I’ll be fine…if I get it at some point.
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US or AU?
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AU
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Fuck 🙁
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http://www.siliconera.com/2013/04/17/gyrozetter-the-rpg-where-you-get-exp-for-drifting/
WTF!? I would actually really enjoy a game like this.
Not sad/bad news:
I’m glad I got a good group for once in this assignment. There’s one dud but we’ve never met them and I hope we don’t since the Lecturer/Chief Examiner (head of unit) said the assignment can be done solo or without members.
These guys know what they’re doing and they’ve done the assignment for another unit I’m doing so they can help me out on that too 😀
Since Finance is all weird the Assignments are worth 25% and Exams are 70% so if I can ace both that’ll be just swell!
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Oh and I’ve been posting a shitload lately because I had a 2 hour break in Uni and was super bored :P. Please forgive me, let’s be friends <3
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This might answer some questions
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Everyone hates Accounting 😛
Well there’s Accounting and Banking and Finance, separate but equal?!
I DUNNO MAN
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@shane @bdkiaf
Never before have I suffered such an insult! This won’t do! Now goodbye, forever!
Edit: aaaand I’m back.
Ooooo I just noticed the article about virtual console and the update coming to wiiu – is that for US though? Are we getting that same stuff soon(ish)? I would like to play virtual console on the wiiu controller screen thingamajig :3
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Oh man, that’d be all kinds of awesome! I’d love to see Sunshine and Luigi’s Mansion on the Wii U too.
Annnnnnnd there it is…
The child porn thing that people were talking about that’s been circulating around facebook has now just appeared in my news feed.
Not. Fucking. Cool.
Seriously – what the fuck, facebook?
This is the ultimate reason why you putting shit that people like/comment on is just not on!!
It’s bad enough the constant stream of “comment if whatever” or “tag someone who is a something” because of your fucked settings – but now getting this shit?!?!?!
Fucking hell….
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Yeah i’ve done that – it just makes me so angry. It’s not enough that people are circulating videos of people getting killed/beaten, but now this too?
I may have to cull the list down so it’s only my actual CLOSE friends, i think – rather than aquaintances and people i knew at school.
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I’m pretty sure I read somewhere the Police were asking for people to report it if it appeared in their feed or somesuch? Not sure how it would work, but that shit’s not on.
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Yeah i’ve already done that.
It’s seriously fucking sick – there is something seriously wrong with some people-
Even if it’s not something you get off on, reposting that crap should be worthy of a punch in the mouth at the very least.
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@ynefel
I forgot to mention before about Defiance, not sure about you but I got a very Firefly vibe from the show. Which might explain why I enjoyed it so much more than I thought I would.
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Yeah for sure, definite Firefly vibe here too. Not too much, just enough to make it slightly familiar.
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Yep, we’ve been talking about it a bit, me and @bdkiaf have both been playing it and enjoying it. We discussed it briefly earlier:
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-220/comment-page-15/#comment-1172168
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@shane
I told you there would be reprisals. The bunnies are harsh and unforgiving.
Because of your transgressions there is now a fully paid preorder of Dark Souls 2 at the Belconnen EBgames under your name.
I hope your proud of yourself.
Monster.
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lol in your face Shane!! that’ll teach you to do.. whatever this is about.. I have no idea, but well played Freeze!
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And you. Start turning up to meats. I have been carrying this thing around for you for ages but you never turn up for me to give it to.
You’re almost as bad as Shane.
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This thing? Sorry dood.. would have come to the last one if it hadn’t have been in the city. Should be able to start attending again soon though now that I have some regular work though! Wont be able to make the next one I heard about though as it’s on the same day as I need to move house. Perhaps I can have another house warming meat like I did when I moved in here!
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Oh man, thank you so much. This is huge. Too much even. But thank you.
Edit: Just so you know: this is the most anyone has spent on me in one hit in about three years, so feeling a little awkward/overwhelmed 😛
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3.5 hours later, the internets back on! Stupid fucking big air community broadband couldn’t have put me under anymore stress if they tried :l Thanks to that I had to miss a tutorial (accounting, so failing that unit) just so I could get my programming assignment handed in, cos unbeknownst to me they dont accept cash anymore for payments at UTAS anymore and I needed to buy printing credit and since I lost my debit card I had to scramble furiously for the pin number from my eftpos card that hasn’t been used in a good 5 years, and then trek back to the computing building because the printing system here is absolutely fucking retarded and you can only access the computing school anything from the computing building and you can’t connect to the uni wide servers in the computing building.
Fuck, what a day :l
[redacted because people made it creepy]
And I want this http://www.ozgameshop.com/wii-games/the-legend-of-zelda-skyward-sword-game-wii
Just cos the boxart is 10000000000000000x better than the gold one. Seriously it looks awesome.
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And good god Oliver’s girlfriend is loud. I can hear her coming from the other side of the building.
Holy shit, phrasing. This is beautiful.
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It’s okay, he can never edit my post!
I WILL NOT BE SILENCED @BENJ!
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$10 for whoever guesses @bdkiaf’s password!
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I bet @bdkiaf knows it. Pay the man.
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The Third Annual Kindly Endowment of Surplus Terrific Unassuming Free Frivolity (page 17 edition!).
But it’s time for penicl, and you know what that means. —> turn the page now
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Btw what was in the Far Cry 2 stuff again?
Also, I think there was a making of DVD but is it 360 specific? I doubt it.
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Big box, T-shirt, art book (I think), and a disc of some sort (I think). I doubt it’s 360 specific!
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So basically this? http://www.computergame.com.au/images/far-cry-2-release-date-collectors-edition1.jpg
Sorry for all the questions.
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YEp, that’s it exactly 🙂
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Awesome. I always wanted the Far Cry 2 map. Woooooo
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I think @freezespreston just took my good karma and confused it, because my manager went home with suspected food poisoning before we could have the work-from-home discussion :S
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I’ll take GTA 4?! Is it a steam thing? Can I just punch the key in to steam and download it, or is it a disk only deal?
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cool! well if noone else wants it, I’ll take it! Only ever played a pirate copy, and didn’t get real far. Could be fun to go back and see what I missed!
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Done – email me address pls!
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Oh man, first time I’ve listened to the radio in years. I don’t care for it.
Better be worth it uni pals. >:|
😀
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I hope uni pals left the studio in disgust.
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Oh man, this station SUCKS.
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you’re listening to what now?
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http://www.abc.net.au/brisbane/programs/webcam_radio.htm?ref=listenlive
Mutual friends of ours will be pimping their crowdfunded comic!
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I don’t know if I can listen to this for much longer. D:
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Fah, I’m gonna miss it – gotta leave in 6 minutes. Hurry up Jack Johnson, get off the air. Sitting, Waiting, Wishing this song was over 😛
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Why does the host keep saying that. D:
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Oh man, he said it AGAIN 🙁
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AND THEN HE ASKED THEM IF THEY’D CONSIDERED CROWD SURFING. GO HOME 🙁
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Okay, gotta go. Think I’ve supported them enough 😛
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They’re doing well, though. 😀
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We had the most enormous big gay rainbow across my electorate.
This guy may be my favouritest guy ever.
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I cant even edit out of disappointment in myself
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So tempted… to edit…
Damage has been done :'(
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Edit! You know you want to! People won’t mind! 😛
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I’ve seen you, breaking all the rules! You’re a worse influence than Loops!
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Haha! My vices are editing and adventure games. Atleast it’s not drugs!
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I went into my local Commonwealth a couple of times to deposit money into a friend’s account (she’s with the Commonwealth, I’m not) and I was actually quite put off by the whole thing. Some dude was playing concierge at the front door and all but accosted me, then the tellers were so cheery I think I threw up in my mouth a little.
This was not long after they’d done the whole customer service overhaul, so maybe they’ve toned it down since then. I ran away from all these smiley happy-people quick smart. Was actually a little disconcerting.
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Oh this was on the phone, but I miss the big branch in Launceston! There’s a little one at the uni union building here that’s stuck in the 90’s pretty much, but the big ones with concierge’s and free tea and coffee and food and comfy couches and that are awesome. I wish they’d get rid of the eye toys though. They’re so old and nobody ever uses them 😛
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It is a cool idea. Perhaps I’m so used to grumpy banks this new and happy one was especially off-putting. I did find the Eye Toys a bit odd too.
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Reminder :
even though I know you’re all either out of state or at Pez’s launch this weekend, Ross Noble. SOMEONE PLEASE TAKE THIS TICKET FROM ME
Edit: or I’ll give it to Freeze.
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oh shit! sorry man, didnt see that!. YOU WIN!
I’ll let you know on twitter tonight what time & where Noble is happening.-
Awesome, thanks 😀
Does somebody have the details for the Pez gig, then? If I’m going to be in the city and I can actually make it to both, I will.
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Im not sure of Pez’s thing, but like you, if its still going on, I’d love to head ove.r
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http://www.facebook.com/events/536821806350586/
That’s as much as I know about Pez’s thing.
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Ohhh, Facebook. That thing still around?
Knew I’d seen the info somewhere but could not work out where. Thanks.
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I certainly have! Never will I question Commonwealth’s customer service!
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And nor should you, lest they assault with happiness and you die in an explosion of rainbows and ponies.
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Page 18 is like Superman – it knows when it’s needed.
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It’s trying to decide whether or not it wants to rain…
Also, I’m sorry for the Scribbletaku…. it might have been a bit too hard.
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Save it for page 18
Maybe it was but it looks so gettable, once it is revealed I’ll let you know
if anyone has a spare minute can they time how long it takes for my site to load? i just want to tripple check its not a problem on my end before i go in guns blazing at my hosting provider….
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It probably took about 6 minutes? Not sure exactly though, I wasn’t expecting to have to count quite so long.
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Fuck all of Nintendo Direct, I’m more hyped over Ace Attorney 5 screenshots. Confirmed playing as Apollo in case 2, new prosecutor looks badass, limited edition with figurine and 3DS carrying case.
Delicious.
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I have such love for Phoenix games. Such love. Hold me Saturday, as we share our love without words. Just here, thinking of Phoenix games…
Such love…
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Some people think it odd, that we hold such attachment to a video game. But this ain’t as impure as lust or fleeting as mere infatuation. No, this shit’s deep. It’s straight up “I would take this game out on a date, a classy date at that to a nice restaurant and a movie and I’d take the time to dress up in a nice outfit and wear those loafers I bought last weekend.”
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Straight up.
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How can it be wrong, when it feels so Wright?
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Just got a phone call telling me my dad is in hospital again. Every time he goes in it gets more likely to be the last. 🙁
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*raised eyebrow, grunt-powered good juju transmission engaged*
Ask Shane, it’s the goods.Seriously though, hope all is well and your Dad is Okay.
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Aw man, I’m sorry to hear that, Freeze. Thinking of you. 🙁
Let me know if I can help in any way.
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Oh dude. That really stinks 🙁 Sorry to hear, man. Hope it comes good this time. If there’s anything I can do from here…?
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Hence, why I gave up. Though I do endorse and encourage a proper no editing day, that all must abide by. ALL.
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“Last night I was playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”
Thanks, Steven Wright.
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I’m quiet because I had to do groceries and dump the kids on my parents. Now I have to pack because I’m leaving for Sydney first thing in the morning. So get used to me not being around and try not to miss me too much. 😛
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@greeenius AND ALL OTHER HUNTERS OF THE MONSTERS
WHAT IS THIS
WHAT IS THIS
I DONT EVEN
BETTER BE RELEASED IN THE WEST
OR CRYING WILL COMMENCE.
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Free to play apparently? :O
Sign up for it!
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Also chances of that coming to the West are -10000
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BUT BUT BUT
the only slight chance we’ll get it is that it’s being provided by Tencent, who own Riot and League of Legends, so they have some grasp of a western scene, and monster hunter 3 ultimate did well right? RIGHT?!?!?!
oh well, i hope at least some modders will release an english patch like with phantasy star online
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*taps mic*
Is this thing on?
*not even the sound of crickets can be heard, nor a tumbleweed in sight*
*drops mic, exits stage left*
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WHOLE SURVIVOR EPISODE SPOILERS – DON’T READ UNTIL YOU’VE FINISHED IT
Nooooo Dawn, why you ackin so cray cray? 🙁
I probably should’ve seen that Tribal thing coming but I forgot and …THE MOTHER FUCKING BOMBS WERE DROPPED
I’m still not sure if Erik spelt Philip’s name wrong on purpose 😛
Cochran is so damn funny and amazing :D! Gooooo Cochran! I’m supporting him until the end. Going in him, Dawn and Malcolm were favourites and while I still like Malcolm he’s too dudebro this time around and Cochran has consistently made me laugh with his awesomeness.-
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Then you would cry yourself to sleep for having ruined what could have been a transcedent experience
Monster
Edit: The effect is kind of ruined when you accidentally a word. And only notice half an hour later
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WOW! I don’t remember Survivor being this exciting when I used to watch it. Maybe it’s the added TAY Marketing? 😛
Anyway, spoilers!
Now that was a tribal council! Wow! I would’ve thought Malcolm would keep his second hidden idol just in case, but what a great play they made! I’ve never seen such a late game twist 😛 Executed perfectly and then the little “we’re voting for Phillip” and all they needed was one person to flip-flop. Very well thought out! But Eddie’s smug little grin was sooo annoying. My god. I had to look away. I was actually getting annoyed watching a tv show… One of those three is sure to go next week though, there’s no way they can pull something like that off again. EVERYBODY is going to be on the hunt for the next hidden idol next episode.Also, yay! I love the auction challenges. I hope we get another quiz challenge eventually too. The ones that don’t require physical stuff are my favourite to watch. Level playing field and all that.
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I’M STILL CATCHING UP ON MY VIDJEOS. HANG ON GEEZ.
EDIT: I have to download it because I got home too late ;_;
EDIT2: I can’t find it!? Is it Episode 9 I want?
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I’m downloading it geez! Get off my back!
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Can you believe the nerve of that Greenius guy? Answering a question and stuff, jeez what a jerk 🙂
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I WATCHED IT JUST THEN SO YOU WOULD STILL LIKE ME! 😛
AHAHAHAHAHAHAAA! That was hilarious. Watching them scramble and the looks on all their faces. Priceless. 😀 And now we have a game again. Oh and I get to see my pretty boy on screen for at least one more week….
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HOLY FREEKIN JEEBUS! THAT WAS AMAZING!
Freaking genius! I totally called it when Malcolm found the second one. Was all like “…and then he can give the other one to Eddie and all three can vote for Phillip!” I liked the tactic they tried, get everyone focused on voting for one of their own and then don’t even play the idols, but that wasn’t going to work. They could’ve kept the second one hidden until after the vote though, and then really shocked them all.
YAY Phillip is gone!
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Of course it was all Malcolm. “They” tried but obviously Malcolm told them to. (I still love that he got Reynold to give him his idol as well, so he didn’t have to use his) I don’t think Eddie’s got anything going for him. Reynold may have but he’s too big of a target, and he’s still quite naive in regards to the game. Yeah, thinking about it today it was so much more fun watching them all scramble right there at tribal. Brilliant move. So so brilliant.-
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Proved it by winning immunity, but then again he won immunity.
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So apparently it wasn’t the ISP’s fault for the big outage today. The bloody maintenance guys thought they’d cut the fibre cable :l Stupid dumb fucking tradies.
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Not quite. Handed it in anyway because I would’ve lost more marks handing it in tomorrow than today with what I’d done.
I’m rightly pissed off at them. I had to skip a tutorial for a class I’m already way behind and don’t understand, and spend literally half an hour running after a printer when I could’ve done it all from the comfort of where I’m sitting now.
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Don’t mind me man. I’m just being angry and bitter 😛 I’ve got a third assignment to submit tomorrow and then that’s it until the last week of semester, so save the date, end of next month we can go through it all again!
And thanks 🙂
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Jesus. Just found out my old mans blood pressure was 197/98. :S
He’s out of hospital but is still pretty bad.
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Thats… a lot. Tell him blood pressure is like Blackjack, you dont want to be too high and bomb out, but too low isn’t good either
In all seriousness though, good to hear that he’s out of hospital. I hope he gets better soon. Are you and the rest of the Freeze clan doing ok?
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Least he had one, I remember back in 08 when my old man was admitted to ICU, he didn’t have one, though to be fair he lost a hell of a lot of blood by that point.
Edit: glad to hear he;s out of hospital, it’s never fun and always scary when shit like that happens.
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Man!
Take care of yourselves. Catching something like that is ultimately good news in a lot of ways.
TAG, you’re it.
@rize
@crazyguy1990
@sernobulus
@bdkiaf
@welbot
@mythamphetamine
Need your addresses via the mails of E, please, gents. shane at shanewsmith DOTcom
@scree
@masha2932
@spaghett
@ruffleberg
@freezespreston
I have addressed envelopes based on addresses I have used for you in the past. If you have moved, you should let me know ASAP 😛
Thanks all
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Ah, yes, they all moved to my address. They all meant to tell you but they must’ve all forgot.
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Sorry dude, I did a quick email search and couldn’t find it. Would you mind sending again please?
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Game in envelope. Envelope addressed. Post in ten minutes or less.
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Already playing it.
Plus I found some of Dario Argento’s Masters shorts so pretty sure imma grab those.
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Hey guy and dolls long time no typing. well there has been some typing but that wasn’t here so i have a interesting last few weeks that i would like to share for your enjoyment, Now without any delay here is the story of
GOING BACK NORTH
I decided that i should probably move back to Ayr/ Townsville after a long and tear filled conversation with a very awesome friend, The next day for whatever reason I felt i needed to leave that very second. Call it anxiety but i backed up all my things and left pyrean and gorzys house without so much as a good bye or telling them where i was going. I regret this very much pyrean and gorzy are the best people I know. Literally you could look for years and years and never find better people.
anyway fastforward 15 hours of driving i arrived at my sisters house in hervey bay. Then nothing much happened. for a few weeks i drifted along much like a balloon, going with the flow doing whatever. I went on a trip to the sunshine coast which was enjoyable. This drifting gave me some time to think. WHat the shit am i going to do now was the question. I mean the company i had left told me i was welcome to my old job if i ever wanted it, i could go to uni and study electrical engineering like i wanted to in high school, i could travel. eventually i landed on keep drifting but back in North qld. I chose a day to leave and when they day came to leave my sisters i didnt really have any worries.
3 hours into my trip i had car trouble, my car had overheated and i was miles from a friendly face. I rang RACQ and they informed me of their arrival in approx 90 minutes. Well i waited and i waited and waited. 4 hours i waited before the yellow truck came to my aid. Well i say “to my aid” but the guy looked at my car for all of 5 minutes before he decided that it was fucked and needed to be towwed. I waited another hour before the towtruck picked me up and dropped me in gladstone.
The repair guy was awesome so was his apprentice who was a fairly attractive woman. She tended to my car with my supervison. she told me she believed it would be fine when she changed the thermostat. Well that turned out bust when it still wasn’t fixed. feeling bad that i now had to stay the night in gladstone the lady asked if i wanted to have dinner and offered to drop me off at a hotel nearby. I was chuffed. Seriously this is romantic comedy story of a hard luck loser finding love in a unlikely place. Having already recieved the oscar for best director in my head i agreed to dinner with this lady and she dropped me at a hotel to stay the night at.
I got as cleaned up as i could manage, i mean im pretty biased but i looked pretty sharp and i didn’t care what my sister said about my batman converse not picking up women.I arrived at the resturant and saw my date for the evening looking quite pretty. I walked up to her and decided to start with a classic routine
“whats a beautiful girl like you doing in a place like this?”
yes i know its dorky but thats who i am deal with it dear reader and FYI she liked it.
We spoke about where i had been and how i ended up in my predicament. I asked her about her career if she enjoyed it and how she got her job. she responded in the most heart crushing way
“I have always loved cars, and it seemed appropriate given im the butch one out of me and my girlfriend”
yep not only had i been on a date with a lesbian the entire time, i had been on date with a taken lesbian, My life couldn’t of been more of a sitcom at that moment. Having been quite shocked, by this revelation i had nothing to lose now so i just joked around with this friendly beautiful young lady. The night didn’t end the way i wanted to but thats life i guess. The next day my sister picked me up after i told the mechanic to keep the car for a few days to figure it out.
I eventually got my car back in good order and my granma thought it be safe if she took the train down to drive back with me. We set off on Wednesday morning and we didn’t have a fault with the car. except i knocked my left side mirror off while dodging a turtle at road works.
Now im back at home. Im a little set adrift, i don’t know what direction to pick, Ill find something i want to do and even if i don’t im sure i can spend some time quilting or making shoes or gluing pasta to picture frames.
TLDR moved back to Townsville
car had troubles
Lesbian asked me out
Pretty sure someone is filming my life
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Man, I feel ya when it comes to lesbians. On the plane ride to aus I ended up next to a hot chick who A) was a lesbian, of course B) was also Canadian (this was from LA to Sydney, so the chances wasn’t exactly high; also, she lives just a bit north of me!) and C) Had my exact same name. I hung out with her and her girlfriend, who was quite attractive. Went wine-tasting with them and such.
Needless to say, I found it simultaneously hot and disturbing. Mostly hot.
Anyway, yeah, I’m getting off-topic.
I know what you’re going through, bud. Seriously, while our reason for relocating might be different, I can say that my situation was- is- literally the same; go to new location, make something out of life, come back home with crushing realization that life did not change for the better. I’m a high school graduate with no job and no plans for the future, all post-secondary plans hindered by.. a lot, really.
Now, I ain’t good at advice. You may have already figured for yourself the things I’m gonna say. Either way, I’m saying it.
One thing is that you should hold no regrets about.. all of it, really. You set off on your own, didn’t quite make out what you expected it to be. It happens to a lot of people, really. But you went out and got some world-weary experience, and that lasts you a lifetime. And I’m sure there were positives to your trip. Meeting Gorzy and Pyrean, for example! Or maybe those are negatives.
But, uh, this is the important part, and also the most difficult to articulate. Finding out what you want to do in life takes time- I’ve heard a lot of people say that. And, you know, I wouldn’t want to presume or assume or overthink anything, but wandering isn’t a bad thing, but there’s a certain direction you need to wander in. It’s going to feel like there’s no purpose in doing so, but having some semblance of a goal, if not just a echo of a goal, is the most helpful to have right now. Simply put, you need to keep busy, but you can allow yourself some breathing room, or time, rather, to think about what you need to do now.
…. Well, that’s it. In case the above words make no sense whatsoever, I just want to point out TAY has got your back, Rocket.
And also to anybody whose wondering ‘what the fuck why are you writing so damn much saturday?’
I have been drinking.
SATURDAY OUT
TL;DR: Man, I need to make friends with more lesbians.
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Hey Rocket.
I wish I was filming your life, would make me so much money that I’d never give to you.
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I would suggest doing a uni course while you’re waiting. The qualification won’t hurt.
plans don’t always work out, it’s just life, so don’t be bummed out. =)
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Thats an excellent story Mr Rockets.
If someone is filming your life you could always sue later if they dont give you money…. unless they made you sign a waiver
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WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I NEEDED A QUOTE OF IT TO REMAIN IN TAY FOREVER
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Is ‘it’ your penis?
YOU’RE WELCOME, GREENIUS!
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You’re an amazing individual and I almost feel bad about deleting that bookmark I made for Strip Search because I decided I couldn’t be bothered.
I’ll make it up to you by Monster Hunting <3
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You should be. Penises are srs bidniz and no laughing matter.
What if you had poked someone’s eye out? Then who would be laughing?
Hey there TAY
I want to say
This the last day
Of my giveaway
’cause all things must end
At least, that’s the trend
But take heart, friend
And save, don’t spend
As it’s on now still
So sit back and chill
Choose what you will
Page 18 penicl
Go to page 19 –>
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She forgot the copy of Xenoblade.
(old reference to that Pokemon picture I did that no one remembers)
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You picture me when you close your eyes? This changes the dynamics of our slumber parties somewhat.
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Doesn’t everyone? 😛 Haha!
Oh man, I saw that a mile away when I composed that response, but was just too lazy to edit. XD
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D.C. not editing?
Flying pigs.
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But laziness goes hand in hand with ol’ D.C., so the story checks out. 😛
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But not lazy enough to stay at home instead of going on dates!
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It’s at that time of year where the rising sun is at the perfect angle to shine through a tiny gap in my blinds, bounce off my bedroom mirror on the other side of the room, and then reflect perfectly into my eyes as I lay asleep on my pillow. Happens every year! Dammit, Sun!
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“Blind” is a particularly appropriate word for your window covering at this time of year. I approve. *nods sagely*
Also, PRAISE THE SUN. Praise it… *shakes fist*
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Mine just shines through the gap and into my face >:(
And every morning and an Indian Minor chirps loudly and pecks and scratches my window frame. I tried to take a pic but the smug bird saw me and flew off >:/
DARK SOULS \o/
Sif is dead. Got him first time. I’d built up this fight in my head from reading the wikis, assuming it would be brutally difficult. It… wasn’t. I don’t think he even broke through my shield once (Black Knight Shield is my only fully upgraded piece of equipment)… and I don’t have especially high stamina. Kind of disappointing, but I laid a brutal smackdown on him. Made him limp across the battlefield towards me – that was kind of tragic, and I got a bit of sad feels – before I put him out of his misery. I quit out as soon as the battle was done, and got that heart racing, hands shaking thing that I sometimes get when I play the game.
Now that I think about it, that might not be a good thing.
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It’s pretty sad. Really powerful and clever game-making to make you care, even if you have no idea what’s really going on 😛
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If you clear the DLC first a different cutscene plays before the fight starts. It is so sad. =(-
Yeah, I know that. I saw it on youtube. Also, the lore itself is sad enough. Sif is just trying to prevent anyone else from falling to the abyss the way Artorias did. One of the few noble creatures left in this desperate and decaying world, and he has to be killed because he’s in your way 🙁
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I say screw that jerk. He had no problem murdering me over and over again without mercy. Yet he expects it just because he pulls a cute face. I tell him to stop whining and plant my axe between those eyes. See how he likes it.Jerk.-
A note: I first played the game on launch. There was not really a good wiki and not a lot of people had it at that point so I was kind of struggling through myself. I was poorly equipped and levelled and facing him far too early. . Consequently it took about 30 odd attempts to bring him down. I had no patience for his shit at that point.-
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He sounds just like my ex-wife.
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Man, Dark Souls. I spent 120 hours playing that game, got a character half way through NG+ then I got frustrated in Tomb of Giants and have barely played it since. But those 120 hours are some of the best gaming I’ve ever had. The Sif fight especially. I fought him relatively early and he totally destroyed me. My non-gaming wife was even watching on and was quite impressed at the theatre of it. I later came back with better gear and defeated him quite easily. It’s amazing how noble and tragic it is to fight Sif. Amazing.
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Saw a numberplate on the way to work this morning, and the three letters were ‘UGH’.
I thought of you, @greenius.
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-220/comment-page-17/#comment-1176350
@rocketman ‘s amazing lost comment
Morning all,
Since there are a lot of Monster HunTAYs here I would like to know what your thoughts of Monster Hunter Online are?
Not sure how a new developer will change the gameplay, but the use of CryEngine3 is making this look like the Monster Hunter I have been hoping for for years.
Also:
MONSTER BEAVER
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I’m intrigued. Was always bummed Japan has it’s own online Monster Hunter for years, and now looks like we might get a crack at something similar. There’s a lot of questions that need answering though. Wondering how it’ll all play and actually work.
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I know graphics isn’t everything, and I love Monster Hunter, but I definitely would not complain about a MH title with ‘next-gen’ graphics.
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Well it’s a Chinese F2P, so as long as it has english text I don’t know what would be stopping us from playing it. Guess we’ll wait and see.
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When are notifications getting fixed? They get stuck and don’t go away once I check them. I’m stuck on 8. Been stuck on 1 for ages because the persons comment was deleted before I could read it, but this is ridiculous now.
Wondering if Mum and I should go to the market to get some decent food for a change. At the same time, I can’t be bothered =P
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1/2 of the pattern is drawn up. But that was the easy one.
I am going out tonight so if we go to the market, I can’t work on the cosplay. So it’s difficult for me to decide.
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Started the Leviathan DLC in Mass Effect 3 last night and was really surprised at how good it is.
I’ve only done the first part in the lab and mining station. I liked the foreboding atmosphere when you arrived at the base that something was wrong. No one was shooting at you, but the tension was there all the same. I took Liara and Javik and was impressed with how much they talked. (Some of the Mass Effect 2 DLC had limited interactions with party members.)
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On that note, I’m going to play Mass Effect 3. You guys are awesome. If I get too distracted and forget to come back later, I nominate @strange, @sughly and @freezespreston for being awesome. 😀
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MAN HURRY UP AND PLAY SO YOU CAN DO THE CITADEL DLC
‘Foreboding’ and ‘Tension’ is definitely the theme of the DLC. And I don’t remember ANY party member interaction with ME2 DLC. So yayyyy, talking.
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even though it’s not supposed to be out for another week or something, the Dragon’s Dogma expandalone, Dark Arisen is being sold now.
if you think a cross between Morrowind & Dark Souls sounds like a good thing, check it out.
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Sweet, so the expansion also contains the original game right? Because I kind of lost my copy of the game.
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It does indeed, though I’m not sure how the save exporty system works, so you may end up needing to restart the game…
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nope. just start up DD:DA & it scans your HD for existing saves & imports them. quick & painless.
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Well that’s far too simple and logical for my liking.
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in that case, I recommend deleting your saves before hand & then starting a new game & trying to get them back.
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$38 is very cheap for what is basically the original game + expansion.
I just wish they’d ported it to PC. It’s the sort of game I don’t really feel like I’d want to play on a console.
Does that mean I can greedily swindle my way into having your old one for free?
😛
(semi-joking)
The game looked interesting so I’ll probably pick up the expansion at some point, maybe, probably not.
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Sounds good for a lengthy RPG but I’ve cut back on new game purchases this year and have been working on the back log 🙂
I’ll look at it again when it’s around 20ish
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you can have my mine if you want it. Picked up Dark Arisen, so I dont need the base game anymore.
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Wow, very kind offer to a very greedy man! :D. PS3?
Any idea how much extra content Dark Arisen adds? I’m definitely interested in the game but I don’t really want to take the base game, fall in love then buy Dark Arisen later when the base can go to someone else.
But I guess this is a free option and I could always re-give the base game later on… hmmm decisions 😛
Maybe post up a separate post to see if anyone else is interested? I have plenty of games to play at the moment so won’t be playing it any time soon anyway but thanks anyway!
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PS3. the Dark Arisen content is being sold as a separate download too. take my Dragons Dogma disc, buy the expansion bit for $15 or however much it sells for. problem solved.
as far as I’m aware, the DA part adds a fair bit. 25 or so new enemies, 100+ bits of new gear, new large area to explore, & 3rd tier skills for your character. & probably some other stuff too.
Edit: correction – the download of DA is still the full game & expansion. so its still gonna be $40. but if you play the original, then at some point get DA, then you can import your existing character & get all sorts of bonus goodies.
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Just looked it up and I think Dark Arisen will be made downloadable but not as extra DLC content, but as the whole game itself (so it’ll be full retail price).
At the moment I’m slowly working on the back log so won’t be playing it for a while and by then DA might be cheap. Up to you :), someone else might want it more!
EDIT: Slowius 😛
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$40 is cheap. /o\
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@sernobulus
cheaper* 😛
Why buy a game now when I don’t have the time to play it when I can buy it later (when it’s cheaper) and not play it then? 😀
Of course the free option is always a good one and as greedy as I may seem, I’m not that greedy and don’t want to take the game if someone else wants it more 🙂
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i gots a netflix account.im wondering if you can just throw random tv shows at me cause my boredom will overtake me otherwise. GOGO speed racer,
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The closest I’ve been to seeing any of it was the trailer for that movie however long ago that was.
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The Shield
Six Feet Under
Band of Brothers
The Sopranos
Mad Men
Sons of Anarchy
Outnumbered
Gilmore Girls
Freaks and Geeks
The West Wing-
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I STILL DON’T KNOW WHAT A FUCK SCENE IS BUT I’M SURE I’LL FIND OUT DUE TO SHANE’S GLORIOUS GENEROSITY!
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FUCKING AMAZING
HURR HURR
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I’m sure you’ve seen lots of shieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
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I saw this on a forum and I can’t stop looking at it.
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/shadonicz/4z2rm06-1.gif
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aww, man i just laughed loudly, co workers gave me some weird looks. Nothing to see here *whistles and acts casual*
SO I’ve been waiting for dyad to finally be released on the AU PSN for ages (read since July last year)
And I’ve been patient, emailed both sony and the developer to ask whats going on.
When Europe got their release of it last year I thought we’d get it then, But no dice
Then today I find that GOG are getting the PC version “soon”
GAHHHHHHHH! It probably wont run on my machine but take my money anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You can just buy it on another region’s PSN 😛
I know it’s easy to get US PSN store cards from Amazon US so maybe it’ll be the same for Amazon UK?
@sernobulus @bdkiaf @blaghman @mawt @ynefel @freezespreston @beardymcmuttonchops (IS THIS STILL YOUR TAG?)
Hello Low HR Monster Hunter buddies! Nob expressed interest in playing some MH and since we’ll be doing low level quests, y’all should join in the funsies.
It’ll probably be better if you all played together rather than me powering through everything though 😛
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And of course @dire_wolf !
You should add us all on Wii U/3DS by the way :). Do it through MiiVerse so it sends a request rather than just adding them through the friend’s list. Adding is like 3DS where both people have to add each other before anything happens and they won’t be notified but going through MiiVerse is just like any other thing and the other person will get a notification and only one person needs to accept before you’re friends.
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We could get a couple of low groups together and get a higher in each to support (i.e. not power through 😛 ). I’m not that high but assume high enough to help out if need be.
EDIT: fixed failings
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Seriously, playing online is a lot of fun as long as you have the basics down pat. Stuff like using a Whetstone to increase the sharpness of your weapon, eating Steaks/Rations/Energy Drinks to restore stamina, taking Cool and Hot Drinks to counter weather effects in deserts/volcanos etc. and of course, using Mega Potions to heal (Honey + Potion).
We can help out and I’m sure you’ll love MH even the teeniest tiniest of bits more after derping around in multiplayer.
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A PuppyLicks review of Guacamelee:
Ahem,
*prepares notes*
Luchadores are the motherflipping best fluffing thing ever, therefore this game is too.
★★★★★ Cinco estrellas.
The art style is gorgeous and the game has a lot of character and humor about it. The combination of metroidvania exploration and a light brawler combo system is fun so far, and grappling feels fantastic. The drop-in drop-out co-op is a great addition too although I feel that the game doesn’t scale to the extra player very well, combat seems to become too easy with two luchadores cleaning out the screen. It is a nice touch though, I’m playing the game with my girlfriend and we’re both having a blast. The game seems to be more platformer than brawler, but if you’re keen on a light and fun title to share with a friend on the couch, this is a good pick. Did I mention that Luchadores are fluffing awesome?
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’tis a fine game, just wait till you get to the end, some of the optional stuff can be pretty tricky, the sort of tricky that makes me yell stuff like “MY HANDS ARE NOT OCTOPI”, I wonder if the vita controls are easier, occasionally you need to do controller gymnastics, but mostly very good and responsive,
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Yeah it’s funny combat isn’t the hard part it’s the crazy platforming that gets me.
Not a plot spoiler, i suppose i’ll call it a location spoilerhas anyone been to the tree tops? above the “Tule Tree”, I actually got a finger cramp and had to stop for a bit, you need to use like every move consequetively with perfect timing to get through some of the bits, that’s the area that got me for a while, sometimes it’s hard to remember exactly which buttons to input whilst doing crazy platforming with minimal time for error. I’m still loving the game, it’s good to be challenged sometimes-
Also The Music is great and worth a mention, I like how it drifts between Lazy Mexican melodies into almost Trance music during actiony bits.
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Sometimes I need to stop thinking about what the game is asking me to do and just cross my eyes and go for it and let my automatic reactions take care of it.
And yes I’m past that bit. It was definitely tricky!
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Bought Trials Evolution Gold on Steam. Played it. It’s awesome.
@markserrels and @fatshady were right.
Also, why the flip does buying it on steam still open Uplay?!
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*flex*
I’m in the TOP 4 from TAY!
Shades (jerkiest)
@Sughly (jerker)
@batguy (jerk)
Me
Serrels (jerk)Excellent game, man! Enjoy it 😀
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Dude, it’s all a bunch of crap. I have everything Gold and SOMEHOW Greenius is still above me. DOESN’T EVEN MAKE ANY SENSE!
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I have looked into it before, and it’s mainly about overall performance, not individual times. In particular, tournaments count for a lot and if you haven’t at least set bronze on all of them you’re at a disadvantage. I don’t think I’ve even tried many of them! Maybe skill games too?
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coz Ubisoft dont think one form of DRM is enough.
Edit: Also, are you playing with a gamepad or keyboard? I’d be pretty keen on checking it out if it plays well on M+K.
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Shady did a video briefly talking about it and I can’t remember the terms but with a keyboard it’s either full accelerate or nothing whereas on a controller’s triggers the amount of acceleration depends on how hard you press it.
Because of this he said while it’s completely doable with K+M it’s easier with a controller since on steep hills and such you’ll only want a bit of acceleration as too much can make you tumble.
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Ahhh, Uplay isn’t that bad – I was just confused… :\
Also, I use a mouse and keyboard – it works quite well. The only problem is with some of the non-career mode challenges (like flying a UFO or trying to wheelie as far as possible). I’m not sure whether it’s the keyboard or the fact that they’re just really freaking difficult.
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Those challenges are hard but I know with those two you’re going to want to accelerate only a teeny bit and that’s going to be hard with a K+M
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It really IS awesome!
And Uplay is doing the same thing Origin did; push and push until people just have to accept you.
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I love UPLAY. I love the fact that it makes my PC crash every single time. I love not being able to play my genuine version of Heroes VI on Steam and have to use a pirated copy. It’s the best ever.
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Eeyup. Far Cry 3 had it, and it was a real headache.
The one thing I’ll give Uplay: I really like the concept they have of the achievements and rewards system. Obvious works well for me cause I like achievements, so I can see why some people bitch about it.
Essentially I want that idea in Steam… 😛-
Similar to the old days of where doing stuff in-game unlocked in-game goodies (extra costumes, content, behind the scenes stuff etc.) but it’s essentially the same thing 🙂
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I dont mind Uplay too much. At least it integrates itself with steam & pretty much just runs as a launcher. & Like you said, unlocking in-game stuff for getting achievements is pretty nifty.
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Ahhh, but alas, I am on PC…
… We’ll always share Edmus, Mark.…Foredmus (which is like ‘forever’, but with ‘edmus’)
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i agree, if i get 7 people to join my posse I’ll get a platinum, that’s the only trophy i have left for RDR, what platform do u guys play it on? I’m PS3
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Yeah, but only 360 had the Cake-xican Army, and Sherriff Hugo 😀
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Sherriff Hugo and his dismounting technique.
We also had Outlaw Shady.
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So. Tekken V featured in that Cracked article Mark wrote about. By some quirky homoerotic coincidence, it also happens to be one of the games I’m giving away. Experience it firsthand!
Dear @shane
I read the Stargazers comic.
As I did not see my character’s corpse, I choose to believe he survived.
Also, like, great job! And stuff.
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You are wrong.Also, thanks man. Glad you liked it! Had so much fun making it, and I’m really quite proud of how it turned out!
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Pfft, you’re just jealous of my powers, just like that priestess.
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It’ll happen.
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“and then Pants totally got up from being dead & said. ‘YAY. I’m not dead now!’ then he got on his motorbike and rode off to Disney Land and ate pizza.”
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Worst spinoff ever. That would be like if Angel dumped Buffy and got on his motorbike and rode off to Disney Land and ate pizza.
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oh man. i put all my effort & whatever talent I have as a writer into that & you just dismiss it like it was nothing :'(
I’M SORRY I’M NOT A PROFESSION WRITER OK?!*runs off [Edit: with arms flailing] and cries*
Edit 2: Actually, I’m gonna submit this to fan fiction sites, rename a few characters, call it 50 Shades of Pants, sell it to some dodgy idiot publisher & make billions.
Edit 3 : I am such a professional writer, i misspelt professional.
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Not quite.
Along the way he picked up Rize, who had used his lightning powers to fix his neck. The mourned the loss of the other two for about a minute.
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Hey there TAY
I want to say
This the last day
Of my giveaway
’cause all things must end
At least, that’s the trend
But take heart, friend
And save, don’t spend
As it’s on now still
So sit back and chill
Choose what you will
A note from page 18: penicl
The Third Annual Kindly Endowment of Surplus Terrific Unassuming Free Frivolity (page 19 POST-PENICL edition!).
Here’s what’s on offer.
Tally: 31 claimed, 6 still available
Everything left over goes to @freezespreston (for reasons to do with the darkness of his soul).
PS2
Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb (disc only)
Age of Empires II
ICO & Shadow of the Colossus (ICO is disc only, SotC is NTSC)
Final Fantasy X (NTSC)
Tekken V
Xbox
Halo: Combat Evolved (should work on 360)
SEND ME YOUR ADDRESSES FOLKS (shane at shanewsmithdotcom). THE LINES ARE OPEN NOW.
POSTED
Dawn of the Dead (2004 remake) (claimed by @zetrox2k)
Assassin’s Creed (claimed by @zetrox2k)
Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth 2 (claimed by @batguy)
Far Cry 2 (claimed by @tigerion)
Avatar (claimed by @tigerion)
Mad Men Season 2 (sealed) (claimed by @freezespreston)
Scrubs: Season 3 (claimed by @batguy)
Assassin’s Creed 3 (claimed by @tofu)
Manhunt (very rare PAL game) (claimed by @gutsoup)
Mad Men Season 1 (claimed by @freezespreston)
Farscape: The Peacekeeper War (claimed by @tigerion)
Zone of the Enders 1&2 (claimed by @ynefel)
CD case: The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess (claimed by @benj)
Monkey Island: Special Edition Collection (claimed by @spaghett)
Breaking Bad: Season 3 (claimed by @virus__)
Dead Space 2 (claimed by @ruffleberg)
X-Men 2 (claimed by @blaghman)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 (claimed by @blaghman)
The Wire Season 1 (claimed by @bdkiaf)
Grand Theft Auto IV (claimed by @welbot)
Dungeon Siege 2 (claimed by @crazyguy1990)
Will be posted later:
Dawn of the Dead (original – 2 rare director’s cuts) (claimed by @tofu)
NBA 2K11 (claimed by @freezespreston)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (NTSC) (claimed by @scree)
Magna Carta (claimed by @scree)
Almost ready to post:
Star Ocean: The Last Hope (Limited Collector’s Edition) (postage to be discussed) (claimed by @jimu)
Assassin’s Creed 2: Lineage Edition (in PS3 Lineage box – postage to be discussed. Can also include White Edition Ezio statue for additional postal consideration) (claimed by @mythamphetamine I think)
Far Cry 2: Collector’s Edition stuff (claimed by @masha2932) (postage to be discussed)
Dragon Age: Origins (Collector’s Edition) (postage to be discussed) (claimed by @kermitron)
Awaiting address details:
Mallrats (claimed by @rize)
Bard’s Tale (rare) (claimed by @sernobulus)
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Yes! It will be just like when Serrels sent me AFL Live.
Me staring at the screen wondering what all these oddly dressed little men are doing running in every direction and why don’t they play a real sport like rugby league?
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YES \o/
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If this is not too much to ask do you mind comparing the prices for a courier and AU post for the packages?
I was listening to the radio a few days back and they were saying that some couriers are cheaper within Australia for larger packages compared to AU Post who have raised some of their prices.
We could save each other some money.
Otherwise if it’s too much effort just post it as usual then let me know what I need to pay.
Thanks.
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For larger packages, that’s definitely the case. I couriered 40 kg of books from Canberra to Adelaide for about $65 (would have been >$100 through Aust Post). But for smaller packages, I suspect Aus Post might still be cheapest.
I don’t mind doing some comparing, though. Will let you know!
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@tofu @sernobulus
I haven’t sent Dawn of the Dead or Bard’s Tale out yet. Can you please resend your addresses to me (shane at shanewsmith dot com) because I am useless and lost them and/or am too lazy to go back through old emails.
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@sernobulus, don’t think I heard from you about this. I have Bard’s Tale ready to send, but no idea where to send it \o/
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well…. after spending the better part of two weeks visiting guitar stores & reading reviews etc, i think I’ve decided to get This. Epiphone Les Paul Std. Got a great blues vibe on the neck & a bit of grunt on the bridge. I’m pretty hyped for this.
/talking about stuff you probably dont care about
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Oooooooooooooo
Les Pauls are great guitars, sweet sound. My guitarist has one, not that he uses it for our music, but it sounds fantastic.
Edit: ‘
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love the sound of a good Les Paul.
though yeah… I’d imagine they wouldnt be the obvious choice for you guys.I was pretty impressed with this one, coz while its only a mid-range instrument, its got a great range of sounds you can get out of it.
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Man, that new Zelda 3DS trailer woooooooo! Looks great in 3D 😀
I really hope it’s a new game and not too like A Link to the Past, or god forbid a 3D remake (give us something new!)
Best case scenario is that it has the whole A Link to the Past as well as the sequel!
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/this-is-what-a-boss-battle-in-the-new-zelda-3ds-looks-like/
OMG LOOK NO TOUCH SCREEN SHIT! LOOOOOOK AT ITTTTTTTTTTTTTT
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If you’ve got a spare 10 bucks … sure why not, the game’s alright up until you hit the space age. Enjoy making vaguely penis shaped monsters.
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The reason it has a generally negative reputation is cause it didn’t deliver what was expected…overall it’s a fun little game. I’d call it worthwhile for $10, but get some more opinions first.
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IMO no. I didn’t feel like I was having fun, I felt like I was wasting my time.
14 year old me was quite picky 😛
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It’s not even lunchtime and I have basically nothing on my to do list apart from one thing that I’m waiting for my supervisor on because it’s outside my authority.
I guess I could do next week’s work. Or I could go get a coffee and wait for my inbox to suddenly get slammed at 2pm because everyone likes to fob shit off to other people before the weekend so they can feel like they were productive. It’s just shuffling e-paperwork at that point.
I totally understand if a couple want to take a few photos of themselves as a celebration of their engagement.
I also totally understand that they might want to circulate these photos to their friends to announce said engagement.
I dont, however, understand why anyone anywhere would think that these photos were a good idea.
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I love the one where she’s behind a tree, and he’s behind the next tree, totally stalking her 😛
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yeah, theres a few that aren’t great, but at the same time aren’t really horrible enough to include in a list of horrible engagement portraits.
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holy hell some of those are awefull, I like the 6th one, it looks like the woman is marrying a clock
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Some of them seem okay. A lot are really cringeworthy. Some are cringeworthy, but seeing how happy they are I can’t help but like them.
@spaghett’s last song played game!
Shenanigans
Sam
Heroin
Feels.
Spacing
Heathen Child – Grinderman
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Coz I’m really loving the album recently, Gay Paris – The Demarcation of Joseph Hollybone.
According to the band, Joseph Hollybone is a wolf from the future who is also a man. Album of the year.
Edit : added link.
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I was blissfully unaware of the extent of fanfic/general fandom until my housemate became an obsessed ‘Cherik’ (Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr) fan. I was always aware of a few people that wrote harmless stuff like Pokemon fanfics, but realising there’s an enormous subculture of the internet that even goes as far as writing stories about prisoner/bondage/rape type scenarios between characters just blew me away.
Apparently it’s really not a small thing. Call me late to the party, or even naive, but I was sufficiently weirded out by such revelations.
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theres a really, really fucked up Power Rangers one in which the Pink Ranger is kidnapped & tortured / raped to death by the monster of the week. As far as I’m aware, its the only fan fic that has been actually banned in certain countries.
Edit: havent read it myself, nor do I want to. but I’ve been told stuff. its not nice.
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The worst part is, thanks to my housemate, I have. I even read a bit of it until I felt an aneurysm coming on and promptly aborted.
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Reading it deadpan is a party trick I’ve used a couple times, has people in stitches.
Especially if you read it AS WRITTEN, mistakes and all.
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I’m more interested in whether it was written seriously. I’m pretty sure it was, but there’s a part of me that hopes it was written in jest.
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Nope, seriously.
It’s too good.
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I was also made aware of the process of ‘shipping’ characters. Apparently people have even shipped Daniel Craig’s Bond and Judi Dench’s M. The fuck?
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at the Harvest festival last year, there was a performance called ‘Erotic Fan Fiction’
pretty graphic & badly written sexual encounters between Blinky Bill & his sister, Margaret Pomerantz & David Stratton (which was brilliant) & …one or two others.@gingerchris86 was there. he might be able to fill in the blanks.
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That’s Four Stars from me.
And Three and a half from me.
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On My Immortal: Well, it’s bad, but- OH SWEET JESUS, 44 CHAPTERS?!
“WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING YOU MOTHERFUKERS!”
-Dumbledore
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I love how halfway through all the characters are Goffs, except the one based on her friend that she obviously had a falling out with.
Goffik.
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I read the first 5 chapters. My favourite part is how obvious it is that a thesaurus was used for the professors’ parts.
I managed to completely ruin @shane’s day by finding one where Raphael forcibly fingered Michelangelo.
Jordi found one where Lucius Malfoy took a drill to Draco’s skull so he could have greatly detailed sex with his brain.
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Cloud reached down, pulled on the ignition cord, and felt the roar of the mower underneath him. His hands vibrated, the raw power on display here was enough to make him shake, more than he was shaking from the pulsing engine. He began to move, left, up, right. Thorough, methodical, efficient. (?)-
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I plead the fifth.
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He made a good attempt but the actual Cloud Mows The Lawn is less about lawn mowing and more about mid-poop butt sex.
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Fanfiction page 19?
Anyway, it’s a subset of rule 34, really. If it exists, there is porn of it.
And.. erotic fanfiction.
harmless stuff like Pokemon fanfics
Yeah… I’m not so sure. There’s some pretty perverse stuff out there haha
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Oh dear.
What if instead of pokemon being creatures, they are hot, sexy males with special abilities. Ash is going to learn the hard way of the pokemon’s sexual desires, especially his lewd pokemon. Rated M for Yaoi
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6572593/1/Boku-No-Chu
Thought to myself that it was a little bit cold, and then I saw this. http://i.imgur.com/Fv1TwaT.png
It’s quite cold…
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There’s snow on Mt Wellington today 😛
And yeah, I’ve had a doona on my bed for the majority of the time I’ve been here. It gets really cold! But the college hoodies are amazingly warm. There’s a ‘tight and bright’ party on tonight, so my guess is it’ll turn into who has the pointiest nipples contest.
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On a trip to Tassie quite a few years back we got snowed on during the day(also at the top of Mt. Wellington). The day being Christmas Eve. :/
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I remember when it snowed on Christmas eve 😛 Oh Tassie.
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It’s funny because in winter, as a Canberran, I am super envious of your weather, it’s so much warmer.
Actually, I’m envious of your summer weather as well, so much cooler.
Basically, what I’m saying, is that Canberra weather is balls.
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I love our summer, I’m just not too keen on Hobart’s winters. Launceston’s winters aren’t too bad, but Hobart has a mountain right behind it.
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You can’t fight an article, but it seems you’re trying anyway. Your attack?
– Fists of justice
– Blindly flailing at article with the nearest item at your side
– Tail whip
– Growl-
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You did not think this through. The article was a webpage on your computer. In attacking the article you have smashed your screen up quite violently.
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Pokemon
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Here are your options.
– Mudkip
– Mudkip
– Mudkip
– Mudkip
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Mudkip
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Well damn, you happened to choose the deformed Mudkip you caught because you felt sorry for it.
Deformed Mudkip flops around on the ground for a while.
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You have four items in your inventory
– 1 autographed copy of The Lesser Evil
– 1 Hyper Potion
– 1 Great Ball
– 1 can of spray cheese-
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– Equip wits
– Fight -
You apply logic to the article, decimating it with your proficient writing techniques.
Article is on low HP. Use your finisher!
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The universe implodes.
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It’s not very effective.
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Clefairy looks up. Directly into the sun.
Clefairy is blind!
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Come back Clefairy, that’s enough.
Flamestar, eh?
BLASTOISE I CHOOSE YOU
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Magicarp, I choose you,
*uses splash*
Take that……………. nothing
*sorry bored
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BLASTOOOOOIIIIISE
I have run out of ideas.
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* @alexpants ‘ Blastoise walks around aimlessly from lack of direction and accidentally squashes @gutsoup ‘s Magicarp*
Time to make fish Tacos
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The article is erased from all of time and space. Not even the Doctor could find it again. Now nobody will ever read it.
Are you satisfied?
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Look at this guy! Using Pokemon references like he made it through the B2W2 sewer section or something!
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John Howard (he’s the one being interviewed) was apparently pretty uncomfortable. I just want to see the back and forth between the two Johns! If only Jon Stewart was there it could be a 3-way Jo(h)n orgy.
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“This show still treats politicians like they aren’t war criminals that solely work for big oil and big banks. Years of fraud and murder.”
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ahhhhh why did you tell me not to do that.
It got me wondering what was wrong with them
My eyes, the stupid hurts my eyes-
And I don’t bloody well learn
do not click
http://publicshaming.tumblr.com/post/48093470152/two-explosives-went-off-at-the-boston-marathon-on
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Drunken Robot Pornography might be the best thing I’ve ever experienced.
The game is fucking awesome, too. \o/
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I thought it was funny until he started focusing on politics. Then it became fish in a barrel, and kind of silly 😛
3DS w/Fire Emblem & Luigi’s Mansion shipped \o/ It’s currently somewhere in Germany.
Should arrive Tuesday.
MightyApe have some pretty cheap Wii deals:
Metroid: Other M for $10
Kirby’s Epic Yarn for $24
I’m thinking of getting them but thought I might as well just check here first – does anyone here have them that they’re willing to sell/give? Might as well buy it from TAYbies if I can!
Been waiting for a Metroid: Other M price drop for ages and while Kirby isn’t that cheap it’s so damn pretty!
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Get Other M! Definitely worth it for $10!
Epic Yarn was alright. I liked the art style but the game wasn’t that exciting for me. Didn’t finish it. (I’ve never really been a huge fan of Kirby though :P)
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GAH KIRBY’S EPIC YARN!
Too bad I have no money =P
Also, that’s cheap. Big W is still charging $80 for it and GT is $65
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Yes but those stores are never that cheap 😛
It’s been $30 at JB and Myer within the past couple of years.
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Dude! I checked and they had Monster Hunter 3 in stock. 2 copies left \o/
Ordered there and cancelling with Amazon UK.
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Did you pay $65ish for it? I just looked it up on the website and it said “On Backorder” which means they’ve been updating the orders, lucky you! 😀
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Yeah, about that.
EDIT: I hope I got one of those copies… surely their ordering system would immediately remove 1 stock when an order’s placed against it?
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Hmm apparently there’s no cancel order button…
Oh well, guess I’ll just stick with it then 😛
EDIT: sent them a message to cancel it instead, hope it’s sorted out easily!
So I’m about to walk into prison… think the staff will get upset when they see the tiny bolt cutters I’ll be bringing in?
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Damn, when i saw that i was hoping you were going to say Broke street date D:<
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Boss walks up and says “Did you want a car?”
Me: “Uhhh….yeah?”
Later I found out I have it for the weekend for some work stuff on Monday. My first question was “Would you frown upon me taking said car to Sydney for the weekend?”. I think his laughter alluded to a “No”.
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Ask him if he’d frown upon you using it to do some sick burnouts on his front lawn and compare the two reactions. It’s really the only way.
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What your boss doesn’t know won’t hurt him. 😛
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But in your story, he didn’t frown at the idea. You even read it as “No” as in “No, I don’t frown at that idea.”
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Someone just posted an Australian receipt for picking up Fire Emblem.
http://imgur.com/gallery/jKXjbiX
@ynefel
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*Leaps to his feat with a fistfull of dollars*
“Take my Muneyz”
*then realises he’s stuck at work for another hour or so and starts to cry*Edit: Should check links before leaping places
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So I actually fell for that, and I’d be angry with if it wasn’t so fucking awesome.
Christoph Waltz is a legend.
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I HATE how bloody disrespectful some people are here! Don’t take my wet washing out of the washing machine and just dump it! FFS!
I know who the people are who do it, and I’ll hold off saying anything else or the racist card will be played.
Learn some god damn fucking manners.
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Why are people putting dirty clothes in the washing machine anyway? That’s where Lifehacker told me to store my canned goods.
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*breathes*
okay that was a little harsh. Sorry, I get a little angry when I haven’t had a snickers (or when the internet goes down again when I’m trying to submit my last assignment)
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Sorry man 🙁 I’m extremely stressed out at the moment and I’m getting agitated extremely easy. Plus there’s little kids right outside my windows running around and yelling and that’s not helping things.
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Um… I was kidding. (That’s one of the excuses in the article, but it’s TRUE)
Your Zelda wallet’s on the way \o/Time to destress. Also, it’s just uni. Yes, work hard, but don’t kill yourself over it! 🙂
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Kill others over it!
#HELPING
Please don’t.
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Oh it’s not the work itself that’s stressing me out, it’s everything stopping me from doing it.
And thanks for the Zelda case 😀
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Really, there’s only one new component to the song that we haven’t heard before through previews- the ending.
But god damn that ending is glorious.
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That bassline is funky as hell. Apparently there’s only one sample on the whole album, the rest is all original stuff.
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Yeah, I mean, not that I doubt Daft Punk, but that seems like such a weird choice.
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I just noticed this article over on Lifehacker: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/04/ask-lh-how-can-i-use-my-kitchen-space-more-effectively/
I feel like it’s missing something, but I can’t quite put my finger on what.
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I almost bought Horus Heresy yesterday but decided not to because I had to carry home some shelves and a towel rack.
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I have all the regret for not buying it.
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Want free games? Go back to page 19.
Still need some addresses from people. @sernobulus @rize *glares*
Edit: Yep, I’ve run out of energy. It’s Friday, dagnabbit.
Edit 2: I’ve posted out most of the games and things today!
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I just read up that this is the radio edit. I’m real damn curious ’bout the album version now..
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I’m looking forward to Sunday. I’m watching Jurassic Park in 3D 20 years after the first time I saw it, and at the same cinema too. I think 30 year old me is almost as excited as 10 year old me was.
In other news … dang I’m old.
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Jurassic Park came out the year I was born.
Enjoy feeling old, people!
(imagine if I didn’t have a comma there? :D)
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Enjoy, feeling old people!
Enjoy feeling, old people!
Enjoy feeling old, people!
Enjoy, feeling, old, people!
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Ok, I was thinking of a little game. Make up you character stats as close to real-life as possible.
Attributes:
STR = Strength (out of 100)
CHAR = Charisma (out of 100)
DEX = Dexterity (out of 100)
INT = Intelligence (out of 100)
WIL = Willpower (out of 100)
LUCK = Luck (out of 100)
Here are mine:
Tad (The Bad) Mod
A Level 21 High Elf
STR: 40
CHAR: 85
DEX: 80
INT: 72
WIL: 75
LUCK: 65
Traits:
– Bibliophile
– Big
– Dedicated Enforcer
– Diplomatic Leader
– Jack of All Trades
Links to resources:
Traits: http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/3.5e_Traits
Attributes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute_(role-playing_games)
Races: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_race_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)
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Blaghman
A Level 21 Amorphous Blob
STR: 3
CHAR: 2
DEX: 0
INT: 28
WIL: -12
LUCK: 31Traits:
Automatonophobia
Ambidextrous (the advantage of being an amorphous blob, all of my hands can be my right hand)
Complete Apathy
Feminine
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ShaneWSmith
A Level 27 Cleric/Scholar
STR: 15
CHAR: 5
DEX: 25
INT: 30
WIL: 85
LUCK: 90Traits/skills
– Dad jokes
– Written words bamboozle friends and foes alike (AOE effect) -
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Trjn, level 12 Human
STR: 54
CHAR: 8
DEX: 44
INT: 62
WIL: 43
LUCK: 59Traits:
– Has 2d10 next to my desk.-
Do you actually have 2d10 next to your desk? If so – awesome.
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Tofu
Lvl 23 Dwarf
STR: 65
CHAR: 79
DEX: 30
INT: 50
WIL: 90
LUCK: 45Traits:
– Dense Skeleton
– Fidgetophoric
– Reckless
– Vengeance
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Rize the Originally Named
Level 26 Dwarven Defender
STR: 70
CHAR: 80
DEX: 35
INT: 61
WIL: 20
LUCK: -45Traits:
Big
Cold Homeland
Digestive Versatility
Sex FiendTrue Love
Spell AllergyEDIT: For the non-D&D people: Dwarven Defender is at his best when not moving for ages.
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Tigerion of clan Tigs
Level 33 cyber mageSTR: 45
CHAR: 60
DEX: 50
INT: 78
WIL: 30
LUCK: 75Traits:
– Arachnophobia
– Born Big (You were born bigger than others of your race. *wiiiiiiink*)
– Child of Nature
– Iron Liver
– Strategist
– Tall
– Unique Handwriting
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Prisoner #00035
Level 28 human
STR: 55
CHAR: 30
DEX: 65
INT: 75
WIL: 80
LUCK: 20Traits:
Immunity to Magic (haven’t once yet been affected by a spell)
Terreo Succurro
Musician
Book WormAlignment:
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Lord Loops
Level 27 Dwarf Sexy Bikini Warrior
STR = 48
CHAR = 70
DEX =50
INT = 40
WIL = 30
LUCK = 80Traits:
ADHD
Beserk
Extremely Feminine
Extremely Masculine
Insanity
Lucky Bastard
Pervert
Sex Fiend -
Emperor jimu
Level 30
GutterskummAttributes:
STR = Strength 0
CHAR = Charisma 50
DEX = Dexterity 10
INT = Intelligence -9999999999999999999999
WIL = Willpower -99999999999999999
LUCK = Luck 100 + 100Traits:
– TL:DR
– Lazy
– Lucky, lucky bastard
– ex-Pothe eed
– Tired
– Weak boweled.Alignment
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so the mention of Jurassic Park ^up there^ got me thinking about old movies. anyway… ended up on the wikipedia page for The Lion King.
from the wiki article, on the portrayal of hyenas in the film : “one hyena researcher sued Disney studios for defamation of character.”
ok. a person actually sued a company on behalf of hyenas on the grounds that the hyenas’ character had been misrepresented.
seriously. what o_o
Edit: spelling
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With luck like that, I’ll play you in poker any day! 😛
Also, I’m worried that you think ‘Dickman’ is a D&D Race. 😛
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@tigerion
I clicked the link you said not to. Sadly enough I don’t blame some of them. One of the first questions wifey asked was “Was it the North Koreans?”. The media has spent so much time telling everyone how North Korea is going to nuke us all and become the new world tyrants that anyone who gets all their knowledge from the news is likely to think that.
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I guess I don’t watch very much general media so i don’t get that. Besides it really doesn’t seem to be Korea’s style
A marathon, on patriots day, with the event having strong ties to the gun control lobby has all the makings of a home grown incident to me.The turn the country into a parking lot statements disgust me, especially when there is not actual proof there. Or them not needing it. To think the correct course of acting to a terrorist attack is genocide, how do you make those leaps and think they are justified.
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Emotions are running high. People are still trying to understand how such a tragedy could happen. They need justice, retribution, someone to blame. It’s a coping mechanism, of sorts. The comments sound vile, and it’s very easy for those not feeling emotional to condemn others for making them, but put in the same situation, who can say we wouldn’t be saying similar things? Most of those sorts of comments are heat of the moment things, and once time moves on and people start to calm down they’ll no longer feel those sentiments.
Just let them vent, I say, and be glad many of them aren’t in a position to do any more than that.
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It also doesn’t help that the media always mentions “a man was arrested” if it was a local but “an Arab/Korean/Iranian man” if its anything else, painting them as something different and alien.
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Some of it is venting but the attitude of some doesn’t change as time passes.
I guess I am a bit more against such posts due to some of the debates I’ve had. People who think it is right and justifiable to kill 1,000 of ‘those’ people if it saves just 1 American life.
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HOLY SHIT
PSN PLUS PEOPLE:
May Content:
Hitman: Absolution
Catherin
Malicious
Sine Mora (Vita)
Velocity Ultra (Vita)
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forced co-op? Wha?
You mean when the mrs is there?
I was having such a hard time that didn’t stand out at all.
(I was playing on easy)
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Resume? No need. Just fax over 42 pages of pictures of you oiled up and half naked.
No need for a cover letter.
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I originally upvoted this, but have since changed my mind, since the best option is clearly for him to be completely naked.
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Why not fiddling with the G-string?
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No no. That won’t do. Then you have nothing for the certain interview. Can’t put all your cards out at once.
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Surely the interview is the time for a live demonstration. A picture can’t do that justice.
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Discovered something about Adventure Time today, that confused and (honestly) shocked me. 3rd season spoilers, for the Ep. “What Was Missing”:
Apparently there was a great deal of outrage over the “obvious” sexual connotations between Marceline and Princess Bubblegum. Specifically, a lot of people assumed their interactions in that episode showed that they used to be in a “physical” relationship, and that had no place in a “kids show”.
Until reading this crap, not bloody once did I see the episode suggesting this. It seriously confused me that that’s the first place people went…and this is coming from someone who inadvertently does that a lot. To be fair, it wasn’t helped by someone (can’t remember who…producer?) involved in the show didn’t downplay this crap.
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Edit: then again, I’m the guy who always thought Xena and Gabrielle had a sisterly relationship, so I’m pretty bad at spotting lesbians in media.
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You just need to think it through, you should get some advice from somebody like me.
You might not have picked up on it but I’m pretty sure there was something going on between Willow and Tara in the Buffy series-
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They never really get into it in the show … I know they touch on it a little more in one of the comics “Marceline and the scream queens” but even then it’s nothing more than marceline being marceline and screwing with Bubblegum for her own enjoyment.
and for anyone playing at home, their ship name is the SS Bubbeline
So, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about how to be a good role model for my son. What makes a good man? Is it being okay with showing affection and emotion? Is it the tireless self-sacrifice and responsibility of the breadwinner? Is it demonstrating that it’s okay not to be perfect? Or is it the pursuit of dreams? Is it a kiss before bed and constant use of the word “love”?
It was all too hard, so I’m just growing a beard instead.
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The issue is I’m growing a beard, and wanted a humorous way to express that lifestyle choice 😛
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– do whatever comes naturally.
– wait a few yearsIF (Kid is unbalanced)
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have another kid and try a different approach ;
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ELSE
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Well done! You’ve successfully raised a child ;
}Edit: syntax.
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You must be as swift as the coursing river, with all the force of a great typhoon, with all the strength of a raging fire … mysterious as the dark side of the moon
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I think that the most important thing is just being there.
EDIT: However I should point out that I don’t have kids. The closest I’ve gotten to a younger dependent was a cat.
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If you name your kid Nail you are probably a bogan.
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Even though I knew it was an option I couldn’t bring myself to say named, I had to drop it down to a nickname. Probably still a bogan though.
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I went to school with a kid who’s name (actual name) was Tank.
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Did he have a sister called fish? or DPS?
The closest I had to that was a friend called Fern
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Yep, that’s true. Also, having a beard. If I get those two things down, I’m all set for major success.
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If we were close irl and you gave him a peck on the cheek in high spirits I would be fine.
Blokes cop it hard with children, I feel there needs to be some kind of relaxation in that area.
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I assume I’m the only one remotely interested in the game. 🙁
I’m liking the way they’ve set up Classes and Jobs separately. Basically you can level up in any class and if you level up far enough in certain classes you can take a specialized Job which is stuff like White Mage or Monk or the like. So basically advanced classes. At this point that each of the main classes has an obvious job but they’re probably intending to add some jobs eventually that combine multiple job requirements. Eg I noticed there’s no Red Mage (typically would be a combination of White & Black magic which suggests combo Conjurer and Thaurmaturge classes).
EDIT: Pretty screens~:
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/game/armoury-
I’m still interested in the game, but keep hearing things that reduce hype, like outdated combat/gameplay. I’ll still be giving it a whirl to look for myself though.
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Outdated => it plays a lot like WoW I guess.
EDIT: Deleted some stuff b/c I’m under NDA still I think (in the beta)
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That’s ages away though isn’t it? Also it’s made for China so it’ll probably be an awful grindfest with little of the things that makes Monster Hunter worth it.
MH is already effectively an MMO where you only fight bosses and they took out the trash anyway.
EDIT: Also you can’t be a cute kitty girl in Monster Hunter
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Exactly, free to play monster hunter game, how could it not be good? Aslong as they keep it to the Monster Hunter formula and not MMO formula then it should be fine.
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All they really need to do is periodically release new hunts, maybe a little balancing and they should be sweet.
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They could do this with any of the MH games though. I imagine they will do exactly this with 4. Though maybe not on 3DS because Nintendo’s online infrastructure is stuck in 1998 still. Once it gets its Vita port…
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You’ve never played a Chinese MMO then. That’s not the sort of games they make.
Closest an MMO has come to Monster Hunter is TERA. Fighting BAMs is very similar to how I understand MH to work (I haven’t ever gotten far enough into a Monster Hunter game to know for sure but this is what I’ve been told).
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This was actually the first time I really looked at it.
I generally skip over FF stuff because I don’t have a console and get really confused about when and where I could get into the series.
Looks interesting (aka Pretty) so I would be tempted to see how a Miqo’te Lancer plays
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Sign up for the beta! Phase 4 will be open beta I think (currently in phase 2, phase 3 is in May or so I think and will be the beta for the PS3 version too)
Hey, I’m die-hard FF. I am *remotely* interested.
I just can’t afford no subscription shit I can hardly ever use so I ignore it the best I can.
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I swear when I read crap like that, the language they use sounds like a parody. “… an insidious means by which the organisation is manipulating and potentially brainwashing kids” I mean, really? While you’re at it, call anyone who cares about gay rights a Satan-fuelled Sodomite. If you’re going to be a nutter, why not go the whole hog? Claim that Xenu is helping inspire Children to avoid the innate rape culture found in “Chink” communities, and that Our one true God, Aten, can protect us from women’s rights.
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OK, I may have gone a bit overboard there.
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You didn’t really.
But conservatives say it sees the video as a cunning attempt to promote homosexuality. They point to the fact that the WAFF is linked to a pledge being promoted by some liberal groups which includes a recognition of tolerance of sexual identity.
They equate tolerance of homosexuality as OMG THEY’RE POISONING OUR WATER WITH GAY!
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I’m terribly sorry to tell you this Mr Freeze, but it appears your child has the gay … do you know where your child may have been contaminated with the gay? have you heard your youngling talk about pineapples under the sea at any point? Unfortunately there is nothing we can do for your child except make them comfortable until they are completely overtaken by the gay.
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Ugh, Youtube has somehow defaulted to always loading videos in 240p. It’s mildly inconvenient! There should be an option that forces it to always load in 360p (The highest I can go without having to sit and wait for everything to buffer :P)
Anyway, hope you all have a good weekend!
Dark Souls…no energy
I spent about an hour all up farming for souls/items to make the Great Sword of Artorias or whatever…then promptly realized I don’t have the faith or intelligence stats to wield it properly.
*breaks down in the corner*
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Don’t stress. It’s really not all that great in the slightest unless you’re SL120+. Really need about 30-40 in each stat before it pays off compared to the other weapons.
I’ve sat down in front of a TV doing nothing but play Mass Effect 3 for five hours. D:
Who wants to write a State of TAY? 😛
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Spongebob Squarepants & Adventure Time is trying to drown the kids in a tidal wave of homosexuality … apparently.
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Staff invited me to the pub.
Hmmmmm I wonder what they are after this time. Have a good weekend guys
Man, Fire Emblem couldn’t come soon enough as I’m getting “bored” of Monster Hunter.
I love playing it online but there’s only one other person in G-rank and most people don’t play during the day which means I’m forced to play with… randoms. Usually it isn’t too bad but sometimes it takes FOREVER to find a decent room and I hate waiting 😛
Boooooo
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Have you been paying attention to Toukiden on Vita? Coming out in June in Japan, looks like a fairly competent hunter game. Should come to the west as well hopefully. Also hoping that God Eater 2 makes its way over the pond as well.
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Played demo, not digging it. Odd kind of hazyness to the graphics that make me feel …unattached(?)
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I try not to pay attention to games that haven’t been announced for a localisation yet.
I don’t think I’ve ever played or looked into other Monster Hunter type of games but I forgot about Soul Sacrifice until I read B-funkleton’s comment. I was interested but not going to get it any time soon (back log!)
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so here’s the thing, right? I want to go to the pub. I want to laugh, and drink, and then sing shouty songs loudly and obnoxiously with friends while we trundle on home towards the end of the night.
But none of you are here.
Dickmen.
Did I do it right? That’s the correct usage of “dickman/dickmen” right? VALIDATE MY WITHERING EGO GORRAM IT!
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Can’t complain!
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I’m trying to find clothes to wear to this tight and bright party, but there’s a good reason I don’t buy tight clothes…
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I’m sure it would have. The tightest anybody got was a morph suit 😛
I just wore the only slim fit t-shirt I had and some tightish cream coloured jeans. But I just left because it was a pretty shit party :l
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Having real trouble playing games that aren’t on a hand-held.
The pile grows…must…knock…another …game…off…stop….wasting…time…in…TAY…
I have #yoloswag written in zinc on my arm and a dick on my forehead and I can’t get it all off :l
And I think I’m becoming a woman! I bought another pair of shoes today and I don’t have room for them all 😛
Also Oliver gave me this earlier on (bottle opener): http://i.imgur.com/0feqJeh.jpg and now I think he’s a bit pissed off with me (for something else) and now I feel really bad for having what his sister made for him for his 18th 🙁
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I was thinking about the zinc scrawled over your body, and someone’s penis resting on your head. But I guess it works for the rest of it…?
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Oh nah 😛 We have a thing called GC here (gentleman’s club) and it was before the party, and when you combine drinks with guys and a drawing instrument, dicks will get drawn!
edit: The majority of guys had dicks drawn somewhere on them
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Stressing about loading up Dark Souls tonight and there being an update. Why is there an update? They change things rather dramatically with updates. WHAT’S CHANGED!
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Does that affect consoles?
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Apparently it’s a PS3 only problem. Someone found a way to strip stat points off people in PVP for “the lulz”. They fixed that problem.
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That’s… pretty shit. Sounds like a worthwhile patch then.
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Dark Souls update? Oh man. I’m gonna unplug the console from the internet. I like my current version just fine 😛
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Whatever the base version for PtD edition is. Don’t think I’ve downloaded a patch since then…
1.06, I think…
I’m not really fussed. Just kind of crossing my fingers that none of my current strategies or items are about to get nerfed. 😛
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Good news is that once you buy Dark Souls, you can give the rest of your games away – you won’t be needing them \o/
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I started recently and it is a very good game
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I rebought Dark Souls because the PC version was only $20 on Greenman gaming. It’s not added to my pile of shame because I bought the PS3 version at launch!
What?
Hanging around Dukes Archives dropping summon signs and helping people with Seath. Get summoned and pop up in their world as a Red Phantom. Can’t say that’s ever happened before.
@strange, because you told me to. I’m gonna be Dark Souls II famous.
not.
Here’s the link. It’s not up on Facebook yet, but it’s gonna need VOTES
Looking at the designs that are up there – glad I didn’t do that first, or I would have been well intimidated :\
(I’ve also done four pages of my comic tonight, so I’m done. Exhausted. Time for bed. Night all!)
So with my dark souls the other day, here I am chillin in Undead Burg, grinding for souls, and I clear the area before the bonfire where the elite knights are. Out my controller down to read up some stuff, when this weird noise I haven’t heard before chimes. RANDOMGAMER001 HAS INVADED!
Next thing I know I’m staring at this red player, he runs within 10m of me, and does half a dozen gestures, all while I start to panic. But it doesn’t matter, he only need 2 hits on my shield, the poison does the rest!
I haven’t un-hollowed myself since. Maybe when I fight the boss.
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Haha. Yeah. Low level greifers are the worst. Just remember that unless you’re looking for the multiplayer there really isn’t any advantage to being human.
That said summoning someone for help is great fun. When at a bonfire, turn human and wait for the white or gold signs to appear (avoid red and dragon eyes. They want to murder you) and summon them. The majority of summons are fairly experienced and will help immensely and most will, if seeing you’re a bit lost, guise you around to secret treasures and what not.
Also it’s hilarious when a Dark Spirit invades and seeing them panic when they find you with two helpers. Even some of the best players struggle with 3 on 1.
@shane
How does one obtain the Stargazers graphic novel? Or is it a Pozible backer thing only?
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I don’t know if there will be physical copies at the album launch today but I can check for you if you want?
Otherwise maybe Shane will release a digital version for buyers somehow.
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No thanks, that’s okay I’ll look into it digitally or physically later on 🙂 (@shane keep me updated!)
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It’ll be available digitally soon. I honestly thought it would have appeared by now, but comixology has taken almost a month to approve the first issue (with no end in sight yet).
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You got it?
I GOT IT!
By the way, for anyone else who is interested in getting Fire Emblem today: Go now! Stock shortages! First game I’ve ever not been able to walk in anywhere I want and buy on launch morning (JB only had 3 total copies and BigW had zero!)
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Reports say your JB had 4 copies!
WHICH IS IT, BUSTER?!
I told my dad to pick it up for me when my parents go grocery shopping, I hope there’s still stock! :O
In other news I was weak and decided to buy Luigi’s Mansion 2 this morning (imported) but it’s more expensive than it was on launch so… yeah… SHUT UP
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Son, they were all out of Firing Symbol but they had this Ninjabread Man which I thought was pretty clever.
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I upvote this because my mum totally used to do that
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Yeah, heard about potential stock shortages and preordered it on Wednesday. Got some chore-ish type things to do, then gonna sit down and have a crack!
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AWWWWW YISSSSS WE CAN TALK ABOUT PAIRINGS AND CHILDREN AND DLC AND WAIFUS AND ALL THAT SHIT
ALSO STREETPASSES, YOU ARE GONNA FUCKING LOVE STREETPASSES NOW
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The other person’s team shows up on your map, and you can fight them or buy items from them. If you win, you can recruit their character to fight for you.
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Except we’re in Australia, the StreetPass wasteland.
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That just makes it all the more sweeter. For me, streetpasses means my map is flooded with high-level teams which kill me within one turn.
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Sounds like a fair point. \o/ Australia!
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Toronto Streetpass density is roughly a fifth of Sydney.
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I can’t wait to get some accurate Streetpass density stats from the next Census!
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I’ve only played the demo and it’s pretty great. If you’re an SRPG fan I think this a guaranteed win.
Survivorrrrrr…
Finally got to see it since my house guest wasnt here today ^_^ Errrrmagerd. Why would Malcolm give up both of the idols though? I dont see how that made sense for him. Oh… actually except that yeah you can see in the next ep hes trying to pull the numbers, so… yeah I guess it does make sense actually. Man! I love how they were all whispering frantically, amazing. Would have been less amazing if they all targetted someone I like though XD I like that Brenda was gunning for Andrea, says a lot. Brenda’s very much in this game. Andrea is strategising too much for her I reckon and making her weary of keeping her around. I like that Brenda was going that way. Also I’m sure you all talked about this already but I didnt get to SO LEAVE ME ALONE :'( (and talk to me please, Im so lonely)
…IS AMAZING!
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I KNOW RIGHT
I really like Brenda now that she’s getting a bit more screen time. She seemed to not get any attention at all at the start.EDIT: My thoughts are back in this TAY somewhere, I don’t know where 😛
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Brenda > Andrea
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SURVIVOR WOOOOOO!
I like how you asked a question then answered it yourself 😀
Before that ep (and even in her own season) Brenda was pretty much “just there”, same with Andrea in her season but she had a bit more screen time this time around. I didn’t mind them but after Dawn’s crazy breakdown (:'( poor Dawn) and Brenda’s awesomeness I really like her now 😀-
Yeah. I always remembered…
Brenda being pretty clued in though in her first season. She didnt talk as much openly, but shes like Sandra, you know the girl that won twice? They both play very low key but smart games.
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downvote :p
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http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9123782/the-strange-case-super-mario-bros-movie
Interesting read if you have some spare time.
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Specter went on to file Mario right alongside Blade Runner, which shared a production designer in David L. Snyder. The story put forward the idea this could be more than a cash cow — it could be an important aesthetic event.
lol. It is a good read though, kinda sums up a lot of whats wrong with all the fingers poking into films in America.
What’s this dickman thing? You guys have been saying it and people were saying it at the party last night too. And anyone know how you get zinc cream off? :S I’ve showered twice in the past 14 hours and it’s still there :S
And in my first gaming related thing in ages (all those people who said you’d have more time to play games at Uni you’re wrong), I might hopefully be getting Fire Emblem today, if not tomorrow. I finally have something to spend the EB gift cards I got for Christmas on! For those who have it, please tell me it’s good!
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It’s the worst 3DS Fire Emblem I’ve ever not played!
Also there’s definitely more time for games at Uni as long as you’re not such a party animal like yourself 😛
International shipping is truly a strange beast.
My 3DS is literally travelling around the world to get to me. It went UK -> Germany -> USA and is currently in Kentucky.
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So what did you end up getting? Just a plain 3DS XL (what colour!?) and FE, WeeGees, with MH at MightyApe?
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This. Also Circle Pad Pro XL for the hunting of monsters. It’s blue b/c my US is red and needed a contrasting color.
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I figured you’d get a different colour (predicted blue!) so you don’t get them mixed up 😛
Ah, I remembered but then forgot about telling you to get the XL for Hunting as it’s going to be rather difficult without one.
How much Monster Hunter have you played before? If I remember you had some PSP ones but didn’t put too much time into them? Feel free to ask any questions! I’m the resident MH3U master around here 😛
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Played about 2 hours of Monster Hunter 2 on PSP and was mainly frustrated by the controls.
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I’m interested to hear your thoughts, it’s not the nicest series for newcomers :/
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Oh man. This game. Oh man. This is pretty damn amazing. (Firey Emblems)
Minor minor spoilers about one of the early characters you meet…
“Mine name is Sully!” XD
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Maybe you should mention what game you’re talking about if you’re going to spoil something from it?
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Hi TAY.
Some discussion RE: D&D in an online space was on The Twitter earlier today; apparently following on from some ideas brought up last night/recently.
I’m keen to be involved. I brought up a similar idea last year when roll20.net launched, since it seemed perfect for this kind of thing. In fact, it is perfect for “this kind of thing”. Naturally, there are some points that need to be considered.
* The free version of Roll20 is essentially a Google Hangout. It’ll do the job, but it’s a fairly bare-bones tool. The free version does still include some free “tilesets” and the GM tools (most importantly the Die Roller).
* There’s not actually tile “sets” in (what I think is) the conventional understanding of the word. Each tileset is a single image that can be slightly scaled. In short, pre-painted backgrounds and/or dungeon floorplans. Very little in the way of smaller tokens to add flavour to otherwise bare rooms.
* You can use the GM Tools to draw up your own floorplan. I’ve played around with this a bit; it’s not horrible, but there’s no way to auto-lock to grid (so the copy/paste school of design means you’ll need to line up your duplications by eye – I was trying to create a patterned tile floor) and there’s no erase tool – if you make a mistake or change your mind, you need to delete the shape you’re working on and start again.
* It doesn’t include any rulesets. These may be included in the paid subscription levels somewhere, I haven’t checked recently. It’s expected that the GM and players have a copy of the rules on hand. For me, this makes teaching/introducing new players a little difficult.
None of this actually prevents Roll20 from being used; It will probably effect the way in which it is used though.
I’m already working on a one-shot dungeon-bash adventure to take to PAX, so I’d be happy to draw up some pre-made characters and give that a run. (I can design characters that won’t shouldn’t wipe on the challenges I set. Winning is a lot better than dying for new players.)
Tagging everyone that was mentioned on twitter, others please feel free to chime in.
@redartifice @shiggyninty @beardymcmuttonchops @novacascade @rize @mythamphetamine
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Same x3.
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What he said.
Although I have played/do own one of the box set preconstructed games (Legend of Drizz’t) so not sure if that would be helpful to me or not.
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Sounds fun!
I’ve never played anything like that before though so take that into account before you let me play 😛
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Yeah, there’s some clear limitations to not being able to play face to face, but I think this may be the best chance without costing people a lot. The big issue will be teaching people, but with enough patience and enthusiasm I think we could manage.
The other obvious issue is what rules to use. Personally I’ll take 3.5 over 4th, and I think it’s far more in-depth and fun, but 4th is so much easier to learn, and with players needing to be autonomous in roll20 to some extent that may be that way to go.
Wow this seems REALLY cheap at around $180 with a 10 pound off code VCUKZ100
O_O
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Would totally buy for my kid, IF it came with Animal Crossing in its box with cartridge since I want to buy the game anyways. Dont really like the idea of having it restricted to one console though :/
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Yeah the whole pre-installedness is utter crap, I would have myself a pretty Fire Emblem one by now if it wasn’t for that! :'(
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Also, anyone else playing Fire Emblem in 3d? I’d easily say it’s the best use of 3d ive seen so far. I would say it looks a lot better in 3d than 2d, actually. Everything pops so well, SO PRETTY! :O
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I dunno about that… it does a way better job with backgrounds in 3d compared to other games. To me they look more bland in 2d, actually.
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Sughly you’ve gone mad!
I’m playing it in 3D but it’s NOT the best use of 3D I’ve seen! Mario 3D Land and Resident Evil: Revelations used it well and probably even better!
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That they do!
Everything else seems pretty bare bones. It’s not bad but it’s not amazing 🙂
(Tales of the Abyss’ 3D was terrible)
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*really late replyious*
I think the 3d looks great, it looks like your looking into a diarama filled with tiny little warriors.
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If I had it, I wouldn’t. Dunno if it’s my failing eyes but 3D always looks a bit off (double image in places) and I end up feeling queezy and get massive eye strain.
I think the problem lies with myself and not the tech.
man, trying to find coloured jeans that aren’t skinny is like trying to find gold.
I didn’t accidentally a word, you’re blind. =P (i did)
How Animals Eat Their Food (original and Pokemon parody version) are both amazing and I’m glad I’m aware of their existence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoEGd7B-OA0&feature=player_embedded POKEMON ONE
I beat that git in Abyss before!
I just needed a nap beforehand to refill MP. Who’da thunk?
(also, there is no easy, only normal & hard wtf?)
@negativezero @greenius
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I dunno how to explain cos the gap between plays was so long I forgot all the place and character name 😮
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Major TotA spoilers for anyone that isn’t Jimu or hasn’t finished:
I played the game undubbed and it was amazingly obvious because Sync and Ion have the same actress and Ikue Otani is pretty distinctive. They actually changed Sync’s voice in the anime to hide it better because of how not-shocking the twist was.-
That’s funny
I had presumed
that he was the Blonde guy’s clone for some reason.
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I really wish my playing of Ni No Kuni didn’t get so badly interrupted. I was loving that world so much and now I’m kind indifferent and that below par battle system is getting to me.
(P4G destroys all the competition)
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That Ni no Kuni had some problems, specifically with its battle system. I was playing it during the time I was playing P4G 🙁
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The thing is though, I didn’t care at first cos the world enveloped me.
Now that that has worn off…
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My mum came down for a dog show and she bought me real food! And also paid for a months internet 🙂
Anyway, going out tonight. Still have remnants of #yoloswag written on my arm. Should be good!
What is the name of this new pop band I keep hearing that have a new(?) single out that sounds suspiciously like The Police?
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Oh, dood.
You were right. This guy sounds like he’s gonna cry.
What a poof!No, but I like the Police sounding bit in that song. Just listened to his other shit and I may have done a little vom.
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I don’t know why I suddenly thought of this, but…
Did you ever end up downloading/watching QI like you said you would? 😛
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I started it and I finished downloading Season 8(? or something) first because the show was split into torrents like Seasons 1-7 and whatever was left but the latter didn’t have as many seeders.
Haven’t started the main torrent yet, running out of HD space D:
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You don’t have to watch them in order or anything! If you’ve already got season 8 you may as well start watching it!
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But but but
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It’s on channel7 at the moment. No matter how many times I’ve seen it I still can’t go past it.
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I think it’s because I saw the movie first when I was really young… before the internet could tell me I wasn’t supposed to like it. 😀
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I like ’em both I (often) dunno what the internet is on about.
I like all the Star Wars movies fairly equally for instance
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I love how no one else comments on Gizmodo!
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/04/you-wont-mind-that-this-giant-lens-is-soft/#comment-775088
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*clicks on link and doesn’t see any comments*
:/
Did you permalink an in moderation comment? Maybe your comment got deleted, bad boy jemu
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all it is is:
BAH HA HAH
Lense..soft..oh my..Teee hee HA HAH HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaahahahahhh hah ahahahaOh, yes SOFT! SOFT!!! I get it, HA HA!!!
OH mY GOD! SOFT HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
hahahahh
akjajjajah
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Shaved my head today. So much grey hair. D:
Also playing Mass Effect 3. Finished the Leviathan and Omega DLC too. Both were incredibly good. Looking forward to the Citadel DLC which I’ll do after the next story mission.
Thessia!
Edit: Also, I’m having fun with this game, but I’m looking forward to finishing. I can’t stop playing.
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I want all the DLCs but alls I gots is 45 on the PSN.
Is there any really shitty ones?
Are both those ‘spensive 3 DLCs a lot bigger?
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The only DLC I think is a must for the Mass Effect games is Lair of the Shadowbroker on the second game. 😀
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Try and get Kasumi’s Stolen Memories as well, also for ME2. The mission itself might be short, but I loved Kasumi as a character, and you get the best SMG in the game
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I think she’s on disc with ps3, I can’t remember what is and isn’t on disc…wait….
Because they were too fucking lazy with this PAL release of Trilogy, the box is the same as retail.
“Includes: Kasumi: Stolen Memories – Overlord – Lair of the Shadowbroker”What’s left? Omega & Arrival or something? Are they worth the price of admission??
cc @dc @aidan
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I quite liked Arrival, it was a nice bridge between ME2 and 3. Omega is one of the ME3 DLC packs, haven’t done any of the DLC for 3.
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Citadel DLC for Mass Effect 3 I’d say is a must play too! Arrival is pretty short, but also very plot focused. I don’t think they released it for the PS3. (I think.)
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PS3 got all DLC except for the shitty ME1 1 I think
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Good night, TAY. Tomorrow I’ll finish Mass Effect 3 and I’ll be back to the most addictive game of all… the refresh game. You guys are so damn awesome. 😀
Started playing Drunken Robot Pornography again.
Now I’m addicted to the menu music.
Way to go, Dejobaan.
DARK. SOULS \o/
New Londo Ruins FINISHED. Four Kings taken DOWN on the second try. Not sure what happened on the first try. Didn’t even see the attack that finished me 😛
Second attempt started really badly. Took a couple of hits and healed before I even landed any damage. The second king appeared after I landed my first hit /o\ Everything after that went incredibly smoothly though. The Crest Shield was amazing for blocking their ranged magic, but not that great at dealing with their upclose strikes.
Met with Kaathe, joined his covenant for the Dark Hand, then Homeward Bone-tricked him and went with Frampt after all. Fed him all my surplus rubbish, levelled up my Endurance stat three or four times, and am currently preparing to head off to Demon Ruins to take on the Knight of Thorns and open up the Sunbro shortcut. \o/
Later.
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Really? Why? I’ve been thinking I looked terrible for a couple of weeks now when I go out in public. Haha. XD Had to be done.
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Doofus. Did I tell you you looked terrible the other night? You know I would have if you did. 😛
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Yup! I’d be all “What the hell happened to you?! You look terrible!”. But I didn’t,so you didn’t. 😀
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D:
Oh man, now I’ll be extra strength nervous every time I meet you. Haha!
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I did.
I was also mildly offended and not bored enough to turn it off. Which I did the other day during the Dr Who cowboy episode.
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Injustice is fun, but ugly. Don’t like the designs much.
And ye gods some of the voice acting SUCKS. Not a fan of the Joker.
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I fucking hate gritty superheroes. Bring on the bright coloured spandex. And Catwoman isn’t a slut, she’s a tease. Get it right!!!
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YARRRRR!!
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I read up on spoilers, but honestly, 3.33 hits the batshit crazy what-the-fuck-spoilers-do-nothing-for-this event horizon.
God knows how it’ll all end.
Damn, I forgot how to play Surgeon Simulator…
*cackles maniacally has he accidentally drills a patient’s head*
I don’t particularly care what people think, but I feel like such a wanker going out wearing a white tshirt and jeans… Feels so wankerish.
But yeah, umm. Decent night I guess. Thanks mum for the definitely-alcohol-money! Got to meet a few of Oliver’s friends who came down from Burnie, and got slapped over the head by his gf for my apparently too inappropriate jokes!
Jack Reacher
was a lot better than I would have thought.
Decent flick, Thom Cruz goes a bit too violent in the end for my tastes though.
Morning TAYbies … sooo I’ve been playing Spec Ops and just got up to that scene everyone always brings up. thoughts time!
First things first, I’ve gone through about half a bottle of whiskey while playing tonight, so any speling mistakes are probably caused by that or the sun in my eyes. If you can’t guess that there’ll be mild feelsy spoilers, I have no love lost for you.
I consider myself one of those “For the greater good” types , so the scene leading up to the white phosphorous where you have to choose between saving the civilians and gould wasn’t really a big decision. I went straight for gould, two civilians for information that could lead to numerous more civilians evacuated or helped … I can live with that. So I went for Gould and the bastard died anyway … not like I became more bullet than man to save you or anything
So we start onto the scene and to be perfectly honest I didn’t want to use the mortar … sure it was Generic Bad Guy camp 13, but I wanted more information before raining molten death on people. I couldn’t see any reason why we couldn’t just skirt the camp till we knew more. So I searched for an alternative until I came to the realisation that the game makes you use it. Fine, I’ll play your game … game.
I set up on the viewer and start picking my targets, only really aiming for the ones around the cars until all that was left was the two across the bridge and the 40 odd people that weren’t moving to fire on me. I decided not to shoot at them because … well my controller stopped shaking and the screen stopped being bloody. Maybe, just maybe they’ve come to their senses and the camera dealy disappeared. I begin my walk through the camp soaking in all the unneeded horror the game has forced me to do, as I notice two flaming wrecks on a bridge in the distance. For the first time in my drunken shambling through the desert I stop and curse something that isn’t caused by a bullet going through my organs. This isn’t right. I left you alone, I made sure that area wasn’t hit.
I break into a run, people writhing left and right as I get to the area that should be full of hopefully smiling, not dead people … but instead I’m faced with the half melted remains of definitely not soldiers … After I finish processing the whole mother and child thing that the game so subtly shows me, I can’t help but feel kind of cheated. This grand scene of destruction and emotional impact that people always bring up had no real pull for me, this specific scene of death wasn’t my doing … despite the game doing it’s best to shove these images down my throat and make me question whether any war is worth the cost, my conscience was still clear. Walker was acting like this was a direct cause of our actions … all of a sudden, he wasn’t my Walker anymore. Everything from here to the credits is tainted by something that I didn’t do … this annoys me more than it should and I throw the controller down for now. I need another drink.
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Eh, not really, I’d avoided spoilers for the game because I’d been meaning to pick it up for a while. i knew there was something about white phosphorous but that was it, I was too drunk to remember anything else and even that little tid bit of into got overwhelmed by the whole “protect Gould” thing. So I didn’t really remember anything until I was typing that up about half an hour later.
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Well the thing with WP is that it spreads (it’s like napalm). Also it’s impossible to finish that segment without hitting the vehicle on the bridge over the civilians so you must have fired one too close and it spilled through.Also as walker says, ‘there’s always a choice’. You don’t have to play the game. 🙂
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Wow you’re home already! That wasn’t a long trip!
You came to Sydney on the worst weather day we’ve had all year haha It’s blue skies today! 😛
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@sughly
Ok bruddah, after spending more time with Flah Emblah I still agree with you to some extent but I wasn’t giving it as much credit as it deserves in the 3D department.
However, like I said, it’s far from bad and it’s good but not amazing. Cutscenes and animations are awesome but everything else (menus, maps) doesn’t seem too special.
While I don’t think it’s THE best, it’s certainly up there! But for games like Super Mario 3D Land and Pushmo/Pullblox, I feel like 3D actually helps with gameplay rather than just making it look prettier!
Not sure where I was going with this but I’m just bored and it’s cold and I don’t wanna get out of bed 😀
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Hahaha! Yeah actually… I’m turning it off and on now trying to decide. When one of those prerendered cutscenes come along though I turn it on straight away. A little at odds with the rest though. I like to give my eyes a rest from it, but… I really kinda like how the 2d portraits sit over the 3d cutscenes. Looks oh so nice! They just got a really nice sense of depth with everything. But yeah… getting to the point where I’m settling for 2d most of the time again :3
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Generally I’d play a game with 3D on unless I’ve reached a point where I feel like I’ve experienced it enough. Had it on for my entire playthroughs of certain games but once I reached certain points in others (like beating all the cups in Mario Kart), then I’d turn it off since it’s the same thing and saves battery life 😀
I forgot to ask, did you ever play 3D Land or Pullblox? The 3D depth really helps and you can’t see certain things otherwise!
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Yeaaaah I think I played SOME of 3d land in 3d… but definitely not all of it. Actually… maybe I used 3d most of the time? But there definitely times I turned it off. Vague memory is vague!
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those cutscene animations are great.
i could watch an entire show with that quality animation.
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YOU! You may be interested in my MH post below!
I tried to think of those who were newish and playing Multiplayer
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I only accidentally discovered the ‘Off’ setting for the 3D after a few weeks, had it set to lowest when I wanted off.
I haven’t turned it back on since doing that.-
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I tried, I slid it all the way down.
Since it’s a slider.
Slid. Down.Did not know there was a further ‘click’. It’s not a clicker. Or a slideclicker. Or a clickslider.
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So,, guise, my birthday’s coming up:
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Surely! Hopefully. Totes just watched it too XD
Ok… sure its cool to take some ideas from others… but shes TOTALLY ripped off Erika! What was that!? And then shes like yeah I did well for my first go, making it up as I went along. *cough*ripping off as you went along*cough*. Monica totally made the right choices. Poor girl looked so dejected after picking them :'(Also @greenius :3
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Umm… so I bookmarked it then deleted it later because decided I couldn’t be bothered 😛
I’m the blest
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DARK. SOULS.
Shortcut opened. Sunlight maggot obtained. Sunbro shall be saved.
Demon Firesage toppled. Shortcut back to Quelaag’s opened.
Kids pyscho. Gotta go. 😛
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Oooh you’re ahead of me now.
Last I played I took down the Four Kings and made it to the first bonfire in the Duke’s Archives.Keep at it, friend!
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You’re both ahead of me, kind of. I think. I’m really not sure how to measure progress properly now since the game’s opened up a bit. Also, Pants, when you say first, do you mean the one that is after the 2 boars, or the one that’s after that?-
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BUTT STAB
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Stargazers Launch Party Meat Write Up
– Of course it would be raining and of course there would be track work everywhere. I think Cityrail and Mother Nature just don’t like us having Meats.
– Arrived at Central where the trains were terminating and wandered down George St to Town Hall and Kinokuniya
– Met @doc_what at the bottom of the elevators, where we were soon joined by @shiggyninty and @platinum-urchin
– Like the irresponsible youths we are, we wandered the street causing chaos and destruction wherever we went… or rather, Shiggy and Doc were supremely tempted by some Go Pro cameras, and I fell to temptation and bought Fire Emblem (@powalen).
– @effluvium-boy met up with and we headed over to Galaxy World, or as they are known now “City Amusements”. Why do things always change? I don’t like change /o\
– I lost to Shiggy “Hammer King” Ninty at the King of Hammer. I lost to Shiggy “Air” Ninty at the basketball game. I lost to Doc “HippoBarry” What at Animal Kaiser. But all that doesn’t matter because I came second at Laser tag 🙂 Oh yeah, theres a laser tag at Galaxy World now. First place went to one of two random strangers who joined our game.
– @alexpants @cakesmith and @masha2932 had also joined us by this point. Once we had our fill of games we headed over to the Pizza Hut for all you can eat!!! I had no idea that these still existed, it has been at least 12 years since I had been to one, probably longer.
– Platinum told the lady behind the counter as we walked in that it was Shiggy’s birthday, and while there was no cake brought out for him (which would have been amazing), he did receive a copy of the Scene It movie triva game.
– @strange arrived was immediately confused by the fact that Platinum didn’t have much hair 😛
– I received a patented Strange Hug \o/
– @batguy also dropped by for some food before heading out with @35 to see Ross Noble
– We headed back to Central to bus over to Lewisham (back seat bandits), Shiggy, Doc, Pants and Cakesmith ditched the rest of us at Stanmore, something about getting Shiggys car and not wanting to be murdered if they had to get it later. Poor excuse if you ask me.
– Arrived at the Lewisham hotel, where @harli @cj @gingerchris86 DAN! @fatshadylive others I’m no doubt forgetting and of course the man of the hour, @anonymous_pessimist were all there.
– Drinks were had, words were spoke, and music was played.
– Pez’s set went for about half an hour and included approx half the songs on the album. It was a great set, nice work man. Once it was done we all said “shut up and take my money” and received a physical copy of the Album, all with individual messages and autographs.
– Harli and I headed off about midnight and caught a cab back to Strathfield station to part ways and head home.
It was great to see everyone again, and to meat Strange and Platinum for the first time. Congratulations to Pez on a successful launch. Take a break and put your feet up, you’ve earned it.
PS I can neither confirm nor deny the rumours that while trying to wave down a cab, Harli may or may not have tried to hail a police car.
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Wait… Galaxy World is now called City Amusements? Hahah that is the worst name change I’ve ever heard! Wow.
I fell to temptation and bought Fire Emblem
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We had ALL of the fun.
The universe has now run out of fun.
Always a pleasure to see you again, Mr. Nova!
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Wait…there was lots of Meat-happenings before I crashed your dinner?! But I kept asking and asking for a Meat on TAY and nobody ever responded! 🙁
I take back all my hugs. 😛
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I want to play Fire Emblem but my 3DS is charging… worst day ever 😛
I think I’ll play with 3D off until dem animated cutscenes come on to save some powah
And since I’m already posting and bored…
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@sernobulus (and any other hunters @fled @shiggyninty @rize @dire_wolf you guys might also be interested) – here’s some general advice:
I wasn’t in that room so I have no idea why those randoms were being dicks but most things that annoy people are: people constantly dying (thus, failing the mission), people constantly hitting and knocking over other hunters (thus interrupting them), people killing a monster instead of capturing (if that’s what they want) and people doing other things while on the quest (standing there not helping, mining while everyone else is attacking).
What do you usually carry with you? As for healing I take 10 Potions, 10 Mega Potions and 10 Honey (and in extreme cases 10 Herbs and 10 Blue Mushrooms) which provides more than enough healing that is essentially 20 Mega Potions. It goes without saying but heal only when it’s safe, leave the area if you have to. If your armour set doesn’t have “+50” health so when you die you’ll lose that food health buff. A Max Potion will restore all your health and raise the limit to the max for the duration of the quest/until you die (Nutrients and Mega Nutrients also raise your health but only by a bit so it’s better to just use Max Potions). It’s made by Mega Nutrients + Dragon Toadstool (Granny sometimes sells them at the Port). Mega Nutrients are Nutrients (also sold by Granny or Godbug + Blue Mushroom) + Honey and these Max Potions are 100% necessary to bring with you on quests so you can gain your max health back.
Other necessary stuff I take are Hot/Cold Drinks (I take both because I always forget them). Whetstones, Energy Drinks (Honey + Nitroshroom) or Steaks and Dung bombs because I like flinging poop (and gets rid of pesky monsters in the same area as well as stop certain attacks). Energy Drinks are good because you can consume them underwater and they’re easier to obtain than Steaks. Not so necessary stuff I also take are Combo Book 1/2 so my Mega Potion combination rate is 100%, Paintballs to mark them if needed – although I know most of their areas and patterns by now and Armour/Power Talons (having these in my inventory increase my Attack/Def). I know you guys probably have Bug Nets and Pickaxes but I stopped bringing them because if I want materials I can go farm them in my own time, however, you can use them on certain monsters to catch bugs or mine ores.
Know your attack combos and which ones are likely to interfere with others. As a Switch Axe user I know my upswing is going to knock everything into the air (@blaghman – >:( ) so I try to avoid it and my Swordexplosion is going to send people flying too.
When a trap is set it’ll automatically get pinged in the map and the general thing to do is just stand behind it with the others so that the monster will chase you and go into the trap. If you’re not behind the trap then you’ll draw the monster’s aggro and it’ll chase you rather than the others so it won’t be led into the trap. Most people will say whether they want to capture or kill so as soon try to stop whacking it as soon as you see it’s nearly dead (limping) when it can be captured. Let whoever wants to capture it, capture it.
Sometimes it’s okay to do other things while on a quest like if you spawned in the secret area most people are fine if you go ahead and gather some stuff, or after the monster is dead, feel free to do what you want as long as it doesn’t interfere with others (ie. if someone is cooking steaks or trying to carve/mine don’t go hitting them) but in general hunt on a hunting quest and gather in a gathering one. I’ve played in a few rooms where someone would go off and mine stuff while everyone else has been fighting the monster for 5 mins or so without them.
Know about the monster you’re fighting. Its attacks and patterns and how to avoid them, as well as the areas it goes to, its element and any ailments it has – and bring the appropriate stuff. Fighting a Gigginox, or one of the Raths? Bring some mother fucking Antidotes. Sure, for the first time you might not know what to do but if you’re farming them or fought them plenty of times you should at least be prepared. You can also gain certain buffs from eating which can cancel out some negatives of your armour set. For example if I know I’m fighting a Lagiacrus (who has Thunder attacks) and my armour set has -10 Thunder resistance I can eat in the Thundercaller(?) buff which’ll cancel that out so I won’t take as much damage. It’s almost suicide going into an elemental monster if you have low resistance to thatt elemental type. But the element only affects their element attack and most of it is pretty obvious. What I mean by that is Rathalos’ normal attacks are just normal but when he’s breathing fire then that’s his only Fire attack. So even if you have low Fire resistance if you manage to avoid the Fireballs, you’ll be fine.
If you’re making a room do it in a low populated lobby. If you make one in a 100/100 room when people try to join they’re going to get a “Could not join room” error because the lobby is full. They’ll all come up when searching so there’s no need to go to a populated World/Lobby.
There’s three ranks in the game, Low Rank, High Rank and G Rank. Each one is harder than the one before it and they’ll have stronger monsters but also stronger equipment to be forged. So don’t bother too much with Low Rank or High Rank armour as there’s G Rank armour sets which are pretty much superior to them in every way. Better defence and better/more skills. You should also be Upgrading/Leveling up your armour with Armour Spheres. They’re easy enough to mine so just go ahead and upgrade whatever set you use.
I dunno, general tips n stuff, ask more questions if you feel like it.
TL;DR
– Read it all, jerk.
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Holy crap it just occurred to me that I have another 3DS! Hopefully I can continue from where I left off and saves aren’t linked to the console 😀
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I have an XL so I don’t even use the dock, but there’s no free powerpoints at convenient locations and the DS charger is so fat and stupid it doesn’t really fit anywhere…
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Well that’s more than everything I learned from a lot of playing Tri.
I still want to make all the low level gear, means I’ll probably squeeze a few hundred more hours out of the game. Given that I’m looking at a solid 8 – 10 hours a week just in train travel soon, I’m happy to take my time.
You didn’t mention the Monster Hunter Streetpasses.
Just like normal streetpasses (but called Guild Cards), only they get a card of your current character setup in a chosen pose (I’m prancing). And your entire monster hunting history complete with timestamps.
Poor kid I got the guild card from the other day started playing two weeks previous, hunted G Jaggi, failed the first capture mission, never played it again.
And then when you go to the ‘multi’ area instead of the village, they’re standing around and you can hire them for a couple of bucks to go hunt something and bring back materials. At the moment the low level streetpass guys I’ve gotten just keep hunting gigginox. I hate that one so that’s fine by me.Speaking of gigginox – poison doesn’t seem to be as deadly as it was in Tri.
Pretty much had to use an antidote or run back to the bed, or die.
Now I can pop a potion or two and wait it out. Interesting.-
I didn’t mention it because I mainly wrote the comment for @sernobulus but we (the Wii U gang) already knew about it. I was surprised to find that it’s still pretty much there in the Wii U version and it’s probably even better since you can just trade “Guild Cards” with anyone you’re in a room with so I have like 40 or so.
High Rank and above Giggi has a stronger poison which I assume takes your health away quicker so that’s probably the deadly one you’re referring too.
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Ah. So what you’re saying is that Tri was normal, and low rank is just more of an easy mode.
Gotcha. So don’t get used to poison being like this.-
Not sure about Tri (barely played it) but in MH3U there’s 3 tiers Low (Village 1-5* Port HR1-2), High (6-9* HR3-5) and G rank HR6+. Most monsters will have 3 versions (some aren’t available in lower ones) and each one is stronger and has new and/or more powerful attacks.
I think some Tri monsters like Barroth and Barioth were nerfed so I guess Low Rank stuff can sort of be considered easy mode.
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Oh, and guild cards are just handed around with anyone you connect with online?
Here I thought the 3DS was a little special in that regard. Does it even still have the whole hire them for random missions thing?
Guess it’s a step up from the friend list thing in Tri.-
Doesn’t get exchanged unless you select it and they accept. It’s not really a friend’s list since you can’t really do anything with it except view it, but there’s Wii U friends for that. I’ve added/been added by like 4 randoms that I’ve played with.
Hunters for Hire is still there, essentially the same thing except you get cards by people sending theirs to you rather than just street passing (although I believe street passed ones are also stored so it’s shared between them)
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The AI system in Injustice sucks. Played the story through on Hard. Every fight was th AI pulls out insane Neverending combo not even allowing me to react, defeating me in seconds. Select retry, AI stands there and throws an occasional punch.
Frustrating.
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try the AI in marvel versus capcom.
on the hardest difficulty don’t you even think of trying to cross them up.
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My 3DS is in Sydney. London -> Germany -> Pennsylvania -> Kentucky -> Hawaii -> Sydney -> Melbourne feels like they’ve gone the long way around…
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Grooooovy, I’ve noticed a lot of derp PS+ games but @masha2932 and I no longer play them together because he hates fun :'(
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Ha ha very funny ‘I have a Wii U and PC so no time for PS3’ greenius. 🙁
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What about “blah blah connection problems I’ll never play a game with you again” Masha :-)?
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@dc
Mind you, the full Citadel experience will run you a possible 2 hours if you don’t rush through it. It really is a hefty DLC, as far as fan service is concerned.
Also, I’m concerned that isn’t your tag. I mean, there’s no reason it shouldn’t be, but I’m worried nonetheless.
@strange – ahahahah I actually saw your “I’m home now post” and thought, hey… why wait until Monday when she can watch it now!? 😀
Good ep. yeah? 😀
(Survivor talk by the way)
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Yes, I’ll give you this one. It was a good ep.
Lots of Malcolm and Cochrane. 😀
I made Mr. Strange watch it with me because I put it on whilst having my lunch and he even stopped paying attention to the internet at times so it must have been pretty good. 😛
I feel bad for Dawn and that incident but I still don’t like her. I may have liked her better if she’d faked a breakdown for some strategic reason though. 😛Eric is mystery. He’ll do or say something really smart but then do or say something really dumb. But he wears glasses so he must be smart right? Right?! 😛-
Wooo! I looked up Cochran on Twitter the other day and he and Malcolm were texting each other, naww how sweet :P. So who are you supporting now? I’m Cochran all the way but he won’t win :'(.
Dawn is amazing! A bit whiny this season and I’m not sure why you thought she’d fake a breakdown! :P. I’m just glad she came to her senses a bit and she didn’t get voted out, that would’ve broken her so baddd
Hahahaha we told you Erik was derp!GUIS SURVIVOR DISH
@sughly @powalen @phoenix
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Yeah I’m over Malcolm by now. Too much Malcolm. Also, he’s kinda arrogant when he;s not comfortable, like he’s out to prove something. While in reality hes just derped up his chances time and time again. I was wondering if Brenda would show signs of life, which she had, which is awesome. Was saying earlier, love that she was gunning for Andrea at tribal. Shows shes got her game head on. -
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Never too much! Sooooo prettyyyyyyy. 😛And yes, looks like more people are showing signs of life and getting into the game now. Just happy I don’t need to listen to Phillip anymore, as I would imagine is everyone stuck out there. 😛 -
That would be a friggen nightmare because everything you say or do will affect your chances so you’ll have to keep your mouth shut or… well we know what happened to someone who didn’t! :/
Whereas at home we can do whatever we want :D. Some troll was abusing him on Twitter recently and he got pretty angry!
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I still kinda like him but yeah, definitely really arrogant, like when Cochran won Immunity and he was all “lulz cross’d something off the bucket list because he’s not going to be here long” >:( -
EXACTLY!!
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Dark. Souls \o/
centipede demon was frustrating in some ways. He’d either one-shot me unexpectedly or do sweet F.A at all. Beat him on fourth attempt with sun bro and no magic options. Solaier walked into the lava after the battle and almost died before I got the sunlight medal…
Dark Souls
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Accidentally drew the attention of 5 Taurus Demons simultaneously. Realised I had not re equipped my shield after Ceaseless Discharge. Still emerged victorious. #ultimatebadass
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Got attacked by a weird red phantom crab. WTF? Hundreds of hours and never encountered that before. Turns out they are called Vagrants and are EXTREMELY rare. Only dropped a Twin Humanity and about 200 souls.
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Oh, I’ve read about those! They come about when someone drops an item when online and leaves it there. Eventually, it goes rogue and starts invading people 😛
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I know right? But after Tequila, an ENTIRE bottle of Canadian Club, Jim Beam Devil’s Cut (which is amazing, never thought i’d say that about Jim Beam), Jack Daniels, ciders, guinness & finally alcholic ginger beer. I was gone.. Been 2 years since I drank that hard =/
Didn’t help we started drinking at 1pm and went till whenever, I went and passed out at 2am ha. Spewing did happen, i’m such a charmer, ladies line up!
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Alcohol is fine. Just don’t mix him with other alcohols. Then spew-type activities have a good chance of occurring.
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Yeah, I usually just stick to one type. Last night I had my mind set on the cider and whisky.. But my mates offered me everything else and why not.. ha.
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It always seems like such a great idea at the time, doesn’t it?
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Yeah, and it was the first time in ages I had seen these friends and I was having such a great time, y’know how it goes.
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Doctor Who
Loved the first 15 minutes of the episode, thought it went downhill from there, still enjoyed it overall. Thought the very last bit was rather stupid.
Hannibal (episode 2, @cakesmith, @dc maybe?)
I think this episode stood out to me a whole lot more than the first. Felt less cliché. Definitely want to keep watching the show now. I am bad at posting thoughts.
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Hannibal really intrigued me when I watched it. Enough to keep me watching it at least.
Not sure how I feel about
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Doctaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh:
I’m not sure if it’s just me and my grumpy pants, but I haven’t really loved any episodes this half of the season. I enjoyed most of this episode (but yeah, the very end of was silly). Clara and the doctor have a great dynamic, but the episodes themselves mostly seem bland. Ah well, doesn’t matter. Neil Gaimans episode airs next next next week. The Doctor’s Wife was utterly brilliant, hoping for more of that!-
I’m in a weird place. I haven’t disliked any episodes thus far in the half season, but yeah, none of them have really been amazing. I have a mad star-crush on Clara though, so I can forgive its flaws.
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Still haven’t watched Hannibal. Been neglecting my shows this week because of a certain Mass Effecty game. Top of the Lake, Gravity Falls, Game of Thrones. D: Only thing I have watched is Mad Men.
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Over 200 hours in Monster Hunter already!
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Doctah
I’ve not enjoyed any of the episodes this year so far but this one was good. Up until that ending anyway. Not knowing the monster or its motivations was nice, and they, well, ruined that. I like the episodes that are their own story but allude to something greater – the TARDIS obviously doesn’t like Clara and we see more of that this week. And that scene regarding her seeing the beginning and end of the earth was a nice quick way of giving her what Rose essentially saw and reacting in a different way. It’s the most I’ve cared about her character so far.
Mass Effect 3 replay with the DLC was pretty great. I don’t want to start that conversation again, but the extended ending seemed really unnecessary. (In my opinion! :P)
One part I really liked in the extended ending was:
Learning the fate of the party members who were running with you to the Citadel. All the other epilogue stuff was too over explainy, I thought.
Really great game, though. I’ll miss it. :'(
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Does that mean you’ll post more again :D?
TAY is too quiet and I need you too boost your posts so I’m not the only one really close to 20k comments 😛
kthx <3
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No. Meating. Shane. >:|
Illiterate
You guys? Awesome!
Dark Souls just isn’t for me. 😛
I nom @strange @freezespreston and @sughly
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If repetitiveness has a name, it’s D.C.! 😀
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Spec Ops!
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Forever ruined because of you.
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I had my reasons.
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I actually finished it and was somewhat confused, initially.
ME3 Ending Spoilers:
I basically refused to co-operate at the end or make a decision, and was met with an ending that I wasn’t even sure was an ending. It was incredibly short, and it dumped me back in the Normandy. It took me 10 minutes to figure out if I’d finished the game or not.
After much confusion, I read up and found I’d gotten the smaller ‘easter egg’ ending, which was not one of the main possible outcomes. I chose some other endings, and was unhappy with the outcome of myShepard dying.
So, I went back, played multi and did everything I could to get my galactic readiness as high as I could and went and finished again. I was greeted with the ending where you see Shepard has survived, right at the very end, and I left satisfied.
Also, the ending was completely fine as was. It didn’t need an extended ending at all. The extended ending certainly didn’t hurt, but it felt slightly out of place and made the ending feel disjointed to me.
Then again, i only decided to play the trilogy through after ME3 was released and the great ending debacle ensued. I avoided having any of it spoiled, except for one major part – big spoiler – Mordin dies, and I was less than happy about that considering how much I loved that character. But anyway, it’s the only trilogy or series of games I’ve sat down and done back to back, and had the urge to do it all over again immediately after finishing.
Amazing games.
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In relation to your last spoiler tagged bit:
One of the things which I found interesting is that it’s actually possible to have Mordin survive. He won’t be a part of your team, but he’ll be alive, which is nice, I guess. It does however require a very specific set of actions. There’s a lot of stuff that is really hard to get, and more importantly, require very specific actions. I feel like the game gets less credit in that regard than it deserves.-
Wow. I didn’t know that, I always thought it was an unavoidable part of the story. Must be very specific, what’s required.
Mordin was actually one of, if not my favorite character, next to Garrus. That part of the game actually affected me most. Incredibly sad. -
I didn’t know this either! My first reaction was “I need to know how for my next playthrough!” but then I started to feel like
him dying was such a beautiful, poignant momentthat to change it would be wrong.-
Yeah, I agree. After everyone on my crew survived the suicide mission in the second game, it kind of felt like there needed to be a sense of loss here too, just to make the stakes seem bigger.
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The only parts of the extended ending that were necessary (in my opinion, of course) were
the Normandy coming to pick up the squadmates during the final run and later being told to flee the area. The other parts are just a difference of opinion – ‘I didn’t like the explanation they gave’ etc – but the Normandy and the crew were, in the original ending, randomly flying off through space, and seeing how they got to where they were was important to include.
Actually, I’d also say I liked the fourth option you could take by denying the Starkid or even shooting him in the face, and getting the everybody dies ending. You didn’t like what he presented to you? Then die believing in your own morals, maybe you’ll be happier with that.
Late to the party much, but I finally started watching Fringe after catching on or two episodes on TV over the past few years. I’m really enjoying it. John Noble is fantastic, and Joshua Jackson doesn’t do such a bad job either considering the poor guy’s synonymous with Dawson’s Creek. (At least in my books) I also thought Anna Torv was a slightly plain, if not slightly funny looking woman, but she’s grown on me.
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Oh man, I love Anna Torv. 😀 Such a great show, though. I was only watching clips of it on YouTube today. The writers got to end the show on their own terms too, so it tells a complete story. John Noble is excellent!
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If you’re liking it already, that bodes well. Show gets really good once its own mythology kicks in. I thought the early episodes kind of felt like a quirky X-Files-lite show. Much, much better once it starts doing its own thing! I think @35 is a fan too.
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I am too, but I’m a season and a half behind. Been forever since I last saw an episode.
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I watched the first handful of Fringe and thought it was amazing. But it slowly started losing me and found myself less and less interested as it went.
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Haha! That’s the opposite of what I felt. Liked the pilot, but thought it was kind of generic for the first few eps after. Wasn’t until I marathoned season one on DVD that I became hooked! Plus Anna Torv! She’s awesome! 😀
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Has anyone watched Davinci’s Demons?
We’d decided not to check it out but then we saw an ad for it in the hotel over the weekend and it looked really cool. We’re already halfway through a whole bunch of shows so I’m not sure if we should start another one just yet though. 😛
So I’m starting up Fire Emblem, as someone who has never played the series (or anything remotely similar) should I turn on the “Defeated units are lost forever” option or is that just asking for me to rage quit in a few hours?
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I’ve played a bit of the ones on GBA and I really liked it… UNTIL SOMEONE I LIKED DIED!
Never played it again 😀
This time I played it on the casual one because based on the description it also offers you the ability to Save anywhere. I’m not sure if the other difficulty doesn’t have that but it seems pretty important, especially if I’m playing on a bus or something and it means I can save and reload mid-battle (I assume the other one is just before battles?).
As for the whole permadeath thing it’s not really something I like in games (losing progress D:) but after hearing stories of people restarting and restarting, what’s the point? I figured I could play on the easy one but then just not use a unit once they “die” similar to a Nuzlocke run.
However… I have had a few units die in battle but I just restarted because it was early on in the battle and I did some stupid things :P. Since I restarted on the easy difficulty I almost thought about restarting and changing it but I like the option of saving anywhere. In the future if I’m right at the end of a battle and someone dies and I didn’t save during it, I’ll just continue on and not use them.
TL;DR – Play on Casual/Easy, do a Permadeath thing on a higher difficulty later on!
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I haven’t played one before. I will be getting the new one very soon.
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I haven’t played the previous Fire Emblem series overly and I went with the “No Permadeath”. At the end of the day it would just frustrate me with the random crits. I’m playing the game to have fun. not get angry.
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As someone who has been playing since the first GBA game, I turned on Casual Mode, Hard difficulty.
I don’t have the time to replay levels to perfection these days, and I think ramping up the difficulty is a nice balance.
Evening all, so I just finished Spec Ops … that was a terrible ending for a game.
I can handle the whole fight club type twists of Konrad being part of Walker and him being a scapegoat for all the things Walker’s done … but this entire goddamn thing could have been resolved if Lugo or Adams decided to sit walker down and confront the general bat shit insanity he’d been wading through … and they can’t just pull this off as heat stroke or dehydration. THE MAN WAS TALKING TO LONG DEAD CORPSES AND SAYING THEY NEEDED TO CHOOSE WHICH ONE DIED! He was carrying around a totaled radio and talking to it, waiting a few minutes and then talking to it again. There’s no way they didn’t see this and still think he was in any fit state to command anything, but somehow throughout all this bullshit they still just kept going along with it and look where it got them.
Bah … I was enjoying the game as well despite the rampant teleporting bad guys and their magic bullets. Once I can get all the achievements it’s getting buried in my boxes in the shed never to be seen again.
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Yeah, that game pulled too much shit for me to believe it, I still enjoyed it, but it failed on too many levels for me to consider it a success.
Will probably repost in next week’s TAY but did anyone investigate into that whole free streaming of Game of Thrones available in Australia thing?
I like the idea of it and should use it to support them but I’ll probably still download it because:
– My internet is shit and it’ll take forever to buffer in HD
– My parents watch it too so I can give it to them if I download it
I dunno, that’s mainly the reason I downloaded things. Back in the day (like 3 years ago) my internet reached the high speeds of like 60kb/s when downloading so it’ll be superrrr slow when streaming things and since it was practically using the same amount of data I figured I’d just download it overnight/when I’m away from the computer and watch and delete it later. It has worked out well 🙂
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The only one I know about is Quickflix, which isn’t free, but you can get it on a per-episode basis without having a regular subscription. And I’m not sure if it’s even started yet.
#helpinglikea3yo
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Yeah that’s the one. Kotaku had an article on it last week but I was wondering if anyone had bothered with it yet (or is going to)
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I had a quick look and can’t find it listed there yet. You’d think it would be front and centre with a huge banner, but nope.
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Read article on many news sites as well as Kotaku/Lifehacker/Gizmodo (can’t remember which) about Quickflix having Game of Thrones.
Open Quickflix, search for Game of Thrones.
Battleship is in the results, but no Game of Thrones.
Close website.I’m 90% of the way there with the iTunes offering, except it’s iTunes, and there’s no captions.
I realise the captions thing is an excuse many use for piracy even though they don’t use them, but I like to have the option. Being deaf and all. This is why I like foreign language, subtitled films.
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Oh man, I’m going to get some shut eye. Didn’t sleep at all last night. D: Peace out, home slices.
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The moon has no reception.
Are you going to the moon?
You’re going to the moon aren’t you.
Yeah, you’re definitively going to the moon.
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DARK. SOULS \o/ (yep, third play today.)
Sunbro story complete. Now I can summon him for final battle, should I desire.
Siegmeyer story event in Izalith completed to my satisfaction. Now I have to save his daughter, I believe, and then chill with them down Ash Lake way for a slab. Oh yeah.
Starting to unlock some weapon achievements. Got the lightning one with my Sen’s Fortress lightning spear, and decided to experiment with what is affectionately known online as the dashboard glitch. Lo and behold, the achievement stayed, but I got to keep the materials and my un-upgraded weapon. Don’t know if I should really be exploiting this one, though. Undecided.
So I’m now at that point where @cakesmith and I are on par for time played in DotA 2.
Considering the fact that we both use Raptr, I now get a continual stream of emails each time he or I play it, informing me that “You have surpassed Cakesmith in DotA 2!” or “Cakesmith has outranked you in DotA 2!” along with the “You played DotA 2!” email as well.
That’s… a lot of Raptr emails. I think I may disable them.
Or just play a ton more DotA 2 so that Cakesmith doesn’t outrank me again.
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You should be ahead of Cakesmith as of last night, because he should have been at a meat. That jerk.
Started playing Foyarrr Eramblerlamb in Classic mode, and whenever anyone dies, I Home Screen and reload. A little painful when despite best planning, I occasionally get single shotted by an enemy that pulls off a lucky crit.
Loving the game so far. It feels like someone’s taken every SRPG I’ve ever loved and thrown it into a melting pot, then tickled my junk with the results. Brilliant game.
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